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HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED
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Descriptor
English
:
Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Hipertensión Inducida en el Embarazo
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Hipertensão Induzida pela Gravidez
Tree Number:
C13.703.395
C14.907.489.480
Definition
English
:
A condition in
pregnant women
with elevated systolic (>140 mm Hg) and diastolic (>90 mm Hg)
blood pressure
on at least two occasions 6 h apart.
HYPERTENSION
complicates 8-10% of all pregnancies, generally after 20 weeks of gestation. Gestational
hypertension
can be divided into several broad categories according to the complexity and associated
symptoms
, such as
EDEMA
;
PROTEINURIA
;
SEIZURES
; abnormalities in
BLOOD COAGULATION
and
liver
functions.
Indexing Annotation
English
:
check tags
FEMALE
&
PREGNANCY
History Note
English
:
2005
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
blood
cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced
classification
diet therapy
diagnosis
drug therapy
economics
ethnology
enzymology
epidemiology
etiology
genetics
history
immunology
metabolism
microbiology
mortality
nursing
pathology
prevention & control
physiopathology
parasitology
psychology
radiography
rehabilitation
radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy
surgery
therapy
urine
ultrasonography
veterinary
virology
Record Number:
38639
Unique Identifier:
D046110
Occurrence in VHL
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