Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmad, Enam Ellahi, Syed Muhammad Taqi-ul Jawad.
Pregnancy Hypertensive Disorders Frequency and Obstetric Outcome.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(1):85-8.

Background : The most common medical problem faced during pregnancy is called hypertension. Pregnancy hypertensive disease is also known as maternal hypertensive disorder. Hypertensive disorder is a group of diseases which include gestational hypertension, chronic hypertension, pre- eclampsia and eclampsia. Aim : To find out the demographic characteristics maternal, frequency and obstetric outcome of pregnancy hypertensive disorders. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted at Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi during the period from 18.06.2016 to 20.07.2017. Pregnant females with hypertensive disorders were admitted during the period of this study. Results: During the period of this study, 3.2% pregnant females with hypertensive disorders were admitted. Majority of pregnant females were between 21 years to 35 years of age, para 1-3 and belong to low socio-economic class. In this study, 70% females presented gestational hypertension, preeclampsia 21% and with chronic hypertension were 9%. In our study, approximately 82% cases had moderate to acute hypertension whereas, 3.7% had eclampsia. Vaginal delivered females were 59% while 41% females had caesarean section. Females witheclampsia / pre-eclampsia had high risk of mortality and maternal morbidity and had unfavorable / bad perinatal outcomes as compared to females with gestational hypertension. Conclusion: This study divulges pregnancy hypertensive disorders as a obstetricians main challenge contributed to unfavorable maternal and perinatal outcome. To improve the obstetric outcomes, there is need to give awareness on early antenatal booking and also provide emergency obstetric care services at door steps.

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