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[Incidence and importance of gestosis symptoms (author's transl)]
The assumption is made that prophylactic prepartum attention has helped to reduce the incidence of gestosis symptoms in recent years. However, random evaluation of findings obtained from 835 pregnant women in the First Gynaecological Hospital of the University of Vienna over a period of six months has shown that careful recording of all gestosis symptoms has remained to be imperative during pregnancy and on hospitalisation for delivery. Meconium staining, frequency of surgery, newborn weight, and Apgar score after one of five minutes were taken into consideration for evaluation of results. Gestosis symptoms were recorded from 186 pregnant women (22.3 per cent). Index 1 was recordable from over 50 per cent of these, Indices 1 to 3 from 170, and Indices of 4 and more from 16. A comparison with a control group showed for the above evaluated parameters that, for all practical purposes, there was no difference between pregnant women without gestosis symptoms, on the one hand, and those with Indices up to 3, on the other. Differences were clearly established, when it came to Indices of 4 and above. Therefore, the question is raised, if the term of "gestosis" should not be applied only to pregnant women with Indices of 4 and more.
The assumption is made that prophylactic prepartum attention has helped to reduce the incidence of gestosis symptoms in recent years. However, random evaluation of findings obtained from 835 pregnant women in the First Gynaecological Hospital of the University of Vienna over a period of six months has shown that careful recording of all gestosis symptoms has remained to be imperative during pregnancy and on hospitalisation for delivery. Meconium staining, frequency of surgery, newborn weight, and Apgar score after one of five minutes were taken into consideration for evaluation of results. Gestosis symptoms were recorded from 186 pregnant women (22.3 per cent). Index 1 was recordable from over 50 per cent of these, Indices 1 to 3 from 170, and Indices of 4 and more from 16. A comparison with a control group showed for the above evaluated parameters that, for all practical purposes, there was no difference between pregnant women without gestosis symptoms, on the one hand, and those with Indices up to 3, on the other. Differences were clearly established, when it came to Indices of 4 and above. Therefore, the question is raised, if the term of "gestosis" should not be applied only to pregnant women with Indices of 4 and more.