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[Epidemiologic aspects of hypertension in pregnancy. Study of 442 cases]
We studied retrospectively the case records of 442 women who were followed because of hypertension during a pregnancy. Pregnancy hypertension was more frequent in white european than in black or arabic women. It occurred more frequently in women with an important professional activity than it did in housewives. 58% of patients had a familial history of high blood pressure, 35% were obese, 12% had glucose intolerance and 18% had hypercholesterolemia. Those frequencies were out of proportion with those in the control population. Finally, 32% of patients remained hypertensive after pregnancy. It is concluded that pregnancy hypertension occurs mainly in women whose genetic and metabolic background is that of essential hypertension.
We studied retrospectively the case records of 442 women who were followed because of hypertension during a pregnancy. Pregnancy hypertension was more frequent in white european than in black or arabic women. It occurred more frequently in women with an important professional activity than it did in housewives. 58% of patients had a familial history of high blood pressure, 35% were obese, 12% had glucose intolerance and 18% had hypercholesterolemia. Those frequencies were out of proportion with those in the control population. Finally, 32% of patients remained hypertensive after pregnancy. It is concluded that pregnancy hypertension occurs mainly in women whose genetic and metabolic background is that of essential hypertension.