Hypertension

Report summarizes hypertension study findings from University of Nottingham

Published in OBGYN and Reproduction Week, May 5th, 2008

"We studied phenotypic and clinical outcome data in an observational, multicenter cohort study of 1001 Western European white women and their singleton babies, with stringently defined moderate-to-severe preeclampsia. Ninety women admitted to being current smokers; 71 had stopped smoking before entry to the study," scientists in Nottingham, the United Kingdom report.

"Across the categories of never-smoker, stopped, and current smoker there were significant increases in the proportion of women delivering before 34 weeks' gestation (P = 0.011), delivering a baby below the third birth weight centile (P < 0.001), or delivering a baby with any adverse outcome (P = 0.011)....

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