Optimal Timing of Delivery for Pregnant Individuals With Mild Chronic Hypertension

Torri D Metz1, Hui-Chien Kuo, Lorie Harper

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

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