Maternal morbidity with early onset hypertensive disorders during pregnancy

One-year infant outcome in women with early-onset hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the role of plasma volume expansion on 1-year infant outcome after severe hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and to determine prognostic factors for adverse neurodevelopmental infant outcome. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial, observational prognostic study. SETTING Two university hospitals in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. POPULATION One hundred and seventy-two infa...

Pnm-23: The Relationship between Fetal Sex and Maternal Blood Group with Sleep Disorders during Pregnancy

Background: 79% of the pregnant women suffer from sleep disorders. These disorders are the result of physiological, hormonal, physical changes, that occur in pregnancy due to different causes including fetal sex and maternal blood group. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between fetal sex and maternal blood group with sleep disorders during pregnancy in the second and third trimeste...

Pesticide Exposure and Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy

BACKGROUND Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and preeclampsia (PE), complicate 2-8% of pregnancies. Few studies have examined environmental risk factors in relation to these conditions. OBJECTIVES Our goal was to examine whether pesticide exposure during pregnancy was associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. METHODS We analyzed s...

Thyroid Dysfunction and Autoantibodies Association with Hypertensive Disorders during Pregnancy

BACKGROUND Thyroid dysfunction and autoimmunity are relatively common in reproductive age and have been associated with adverse health outcomes for both mother and child, including hypertensive disorders during pregnancy. Objective. To survey the relation between thyroid dysfunction and autoimmunity and incidence and severity of pregnancy-induced hypertensive disorders. METHOD In this case co...

Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy