The incidence of pregnancy hypertension in India, Pakistan, Mozambique, and Nigeria: A prospective population-level analysis

• Published in: PLoS medicine Vol. 16; no. 4; p. e1002783
• Main Authors: Magee, Laura A., Sharma, Sumedha, Nathan, Hannah L., Adetoro, Olalekan O., Bellad, Mrutynjaya B., Goudar, Shivaprasad, Macuacua, Salécio E., Mallapur, Ashalata, Qureshi, Rahat, Sevene, Esperança, Sotunsa, John, Valá, Anifa, Lee, Tang, Payne, Beth A., Vidler, Marianne, Shennan, Andrew H., Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., von Dadelszen, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 12.04.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis; Blood pressure; Care and treatment; Children & youth; Childrens health; Clinical trials; Complications; Cross-Sectional Studies; Developed countries; Diagnosis; Eclampsia; Female; Gestation; Gestational age; Gestational hypertension; Gynecology; Health care facilities; Higher education; Hospitals; Humans; Hypertension; Hypertension - epidemiology; Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced - epidemiology; Incidence; India - epidemiology; Industrialized countries; Life sciences; Low income groups; Maternal mortality; Medical personnel; Medical personnel training; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mozambique - epidemiology; Nigeria - epidemiology; Obstetrics; Pakistan - epidemiology; Pakistani foreign relations; People and Places; Polls & surveys; Pre-eclampsia; Pre-Eclampsia - epidemiology; Preeclampsia; Pregnancy; Pregnancy complications; Pregnancy Complications - epidemiology; Pregnant women; Prenatal Care; Primaries; Proteinuria; Risk factors; Secondary analysis; Supervision; Women; Womens health; Workers; Young Adult; Mozambique; Pakistan; Nigeria; India; Canada; United Kingdom > UK; Toronto Ontario Canada; Vancouver British Columbia Canada; Karachi Pakistan

Most pregnancy hypertension estimates in less-developed countries are from cross-sectional hospital surveys and are considered overestimates. We estimated population-based rates by standardised methods in 27 intervention clusters of the Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) cluster...