International gestational age-specific centiles for blood pressure in pregnancy from the INTERGROWTH-21st Project in 8 countries: A longitudinal cohort study.

<h4>Background</h4>Gestational hypertensive and acute hypotensive disorders are associated with maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, physiological blood pressure changes in pregnancy are insufficiently defined. We describe blood pressure changes across healthy pregnancies...

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Main Authors: Lauren J Green, Stephen H Kennedy, Lucy Mackillop, Stephen Gerry, Manorama Purwar, Eleonora Staines Urias, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Fernando Barros, Cesar Victora, Maria Carvalho, Eric Ohuma, Yasmin Jaffer, J Alison Noble, Michael Gravett, Ruyan Pang, Ann Lambert, Enrico Bertino, Aris T Papageorghiou, Cutberto Garza, Zulfiqar Bhutta, José Villar, Peter Watkinson, International Fetal and Newborn Growth Consortium for the 21st Century (INTERGROWTH-21st)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-04-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003611