Mean Arterial Pressure and Neonatal Outcomes in Pregnancies Complicated by Mild Chronic Hypertension

Matthew D Moore1, Hui-Chien Kuo, Rachel G Sinkey

  • 1Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, and University of South Alabama at Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Magee Women's Hospital and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, and Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, Columbia University, New York, Winthrop University Hospital, Long Island, and New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital, Flushing, New York, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, MetroHealth System, Cleveland, The Ohio State University, Columbus, and Wright State University, Fairborn, Ohio, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, Delaware, UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital/Marshfield Clinic, Madison, and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, University of Colorado, Aurora, and Denver Health Hospital, Denver, Colorado, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, and Stanford University, Stanford, California, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center/Beaumont Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, Virtua Health, Voorhees, New Jersey, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, and Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; the Center for Women's Reproductive Health, the Department of Biostatistics, and the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Intermountain Health, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ochsner Baptist Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; St. Peters University Hospital and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Weill Cornell University, New York, New York; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California; TriHealth, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland; and the Department of Women's Health, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

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