Risk factors of pregnancy induced hypertension in al-mukalla maternity child health hospital (MCH)‎

Abstract EN

Background : Hypertensive disorders are among the most common and yet serious conditions seen in obstetrics as well as general medicine.

Analysis of risk factors of hypertension during pregnancy and to identify whether these factors are related to age, gestational age, gravidity and other medical diseases were done in our study.

Objective : to find out the risk factors that predispose to hypertension in pregnancy.

Patients and methods: it is a descriptive case series study done in the period first of Feb 2005-31 May 2005 in maternity hospital in Molalla city in Yemen.

Questionnaire was designed to collect data.

Data entry and analysis was done by using frequency and percentages. Results : a total number of 83 cases were collected in Al-Makalu MCH.

Sixty cases (72.29%) their age was ranging between 20-35 years with mean age of 27.5.

while nine cases (10.84%) were under 20 years old and 14 cases (16.87%) above 35.

In primigraivda; hypertension was observed in 50 cases (60.24%) and in multigravida 33 cases (39.76%).

Regarding gestational age, 16 cases were found in those of less than 20 weeks gestational age (19.28%) while most of them (80.72%) had gestational age of more than 20 weeks.

Chronic hypertension was found in 10 cases (12.05%) while 20 cases (24.1%) had family Allandale's for Social and Applied Sciences History of hypertension in pregnancy and 33 cases (39.76%) had hypertension in previous pregnancy.

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) was found only in 8 cases (9.64%).

Conclusion: in Al-Makalu MCH the pregnancy induced hypertension was common at the age of 20-35 years (72.29%), it is more frequent in more than 20 weeks gestational age.

it had more frequent in primigravida than multigravida.

the majority of cases had no history of chronic hypertension.

some cases with pregnancy induced hypertension had a history of hypertension in previous pregnancy (39.76%) while only 19.64% had DM.