Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Clinical Study of Neonates Born to Mothers with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (HDP)

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Gajula Ravi1 , Janardhan Reddy Pulluru2 , Suraboina Satishkumar3

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Background:Globally, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are one of the major causes of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. These disorders are characterized by increase in blood pressure (BP) which may be present before or appear for the first time during pregnancy after 20 weeks with or without proteinuria or evidence of multiorgan involvement and have been classified into preeclampsia (PE) and eclampsia syndrome, chronic hypertension (CH), PE superimposed on CH, and gestational hypertension. The HDP may complicate 5%–10% of all the pregnancies with the prevalence of 6.9%–7.9% in India. Studies have shown that HDP accounts for around 16% of 2.6 million stillbirths and 15% of perinatal deaths globally. Higher rates of adverse perinatal outcome such as preterm delivery, low birth weight, birth asphyxia, stillbirth, and early death have been reported worldwide in women having HDP.Prematurity and preterm birth are documented as the most common cause of perinatal death in Indian women with HDP. The present study was conducted with the aim to know the type of hypertension affecting the pregnant women and perinatal outcome.Aims and objectives:To determine the outcome of neonates born to mothers with Hypertensive Disorders of pregnancy in comparison with neonatal outcome in babies born to normotensive mothers.

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