Hypertensive disease of pregnancy
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Hypertensive disease of pregnancy, also known as maternal hypertensive disorder, is a group of diseases which includes: preeclampsia, eclampsia, gestational hypertension, and chronic hypertension.[1]
Maternal hypertensive disorders occurred in about 5.7 million women in 2013.[2] About 10% of pregnancies, globally are complicated by hypertensive diseases.[3] In the United States hypertensive disease of pregnancy affect about 8% to 13% of pregnancies.[1] Rates have increased in the developing world.[1] They resulted in 29,000 deaths in 2013 down from 37,000 deaths in 1990.[4] They are one of the three major causes of death in pregnancy (16%) along with post partum bleeding (13%) and puerperal infections (2%).[5]
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