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Automated blood pressure measurement as a predictor of proteinuric pre-eclampsia
A W Halligan1, A Shennan, P C Lambert
1University of Leicester, UK.
Objectives:
To investigate the relation between antenatal clinic, obstetric day unit and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements and 24-hour proteinuria levels in hypertensive pregnancies.
Design:
An observational study.
Participants:
Forty-eight women presenting with new hypertension after 20 weeks of gestation.
Results:
The closest relation was found between ambulatory blood pressure measurements and 24-hour proteinuria levels. No significant relation was found between the conventional diastolic blood pressure threshold of 90 mmHg and 24-hour proteinuria levels.
Conclusions:
Ambulatory blood pressure measurement gives better information about disease status in pre-eclampsia as assessed by proteinuria than does conventional sphygmomanometry.