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Health profile of the patients with pre-eclampsia in a referral hospital in the Amazon region.
- Source :
- Pregnancy Hypertension; Mar2022, Vol. 27, p134-137, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- <bold>Objectives: </bold>To describe the epidemiological and clinical profile of the patients with preeclampsia in a hospital in the Amazon region.<bold>Study Design: </bold>Observational descriptive cross-sectional study, performed at Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, a maternity hospital in Pará, Brazil. The pregnant patients admitted between July 1st and December 31st 2018 due to pre-eclampsia had their medical records researched to describe their epidemiological profile, medical history, obstetric profile and clinical manifestations of pre-eclampsia. Patients with incomplete data were not included in the missing variable's rate.<bold>Main Outcome Measures: </bold>3450 pregnant patients were admitted, and 381 of them due to pre-eclampsia, revealing a 11.04% prevalence.<bold>Results: </bold>Both arithmetic mean and median of maternal age were approximately 27 years. 94.25% of the participants were parda. Regarding medical history, 50.27% had chronic hypertension, and 37.23% had urinary tract infection during pregnancy. The obstetric profile revealed that 42.26% were primigravid, and 30% of the multigravid participants had already manifested pregnancy hypertension. 78.1% of the participants attended less than 6 prenatal consultations, and 10.03% used chemical substances during pregnancy. Twin pregnancy had a 3.14% prevalence. Beyond hypertension and proteinuria, scotoma was the most frequent (28.57%) clinical manifestation. 2.36% of the patients developed seizures, mostly (55.55%) before 37 weeks of pregnancy.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The profile of the participants was mean age 27 years, parda race, with chronic hypertension, single fetus, multigravid without previous pregnancy hypertension, with less than 6 prenatal consultations, no use of chemical substances and without any manifestations of pre-eclampsia beyond hypertension and proteinuria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22107789
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Pregnancy Hypertension
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155258393
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.preghy.2022.01.001