Prenatal maternal blood pressure response to stress predicts birth weight and gestational age: a preliminary study

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A mother's stress responses during pregnancy may influence the length of pregnancy and the infant's birth weight. Blood pressure measurements and heart rates were taken of 40 healthy pregnant women before and during a math test. Heart rates and blood pressure measurements increased during the math test. Those women with a higher change in blood pressure delivered earlier and had lower birth weight infants. Factors not associated with this effect included the mother's race and age and initial blood pressure measurements.

Psychological aspects, Physiological aspects, Birth weight, Low, Low birth weight, Stress (Psychology), Premature birth

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Report of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy

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An update of the Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure is presented. It focuses on the classification of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, their pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and their treatment, including postpartum counseling.

Care and treatment

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The location of chronic pregnancy hypertension on the vasoconstriction-volume spectrum: working hypothesis

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Both excess body water and excessive blood vessel constriction appear to be connected to high blood pressure during pregnancy. This was shown by a study of five patients, one of whom was successfully treated with a diuretic alone. The others took a diuretic plus a beta blocker or calcium channel blocker.

Causes of

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