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Agbo HA, Okeahialam BN, Daru PH. Obstetric predictors of hypertension: A cross-sectional study of women attending the postnatal clinic of Jos University Teaching Hospital. Niger Med J. 2016;57(6):320-323doi: 10.4103/0300-1652.193856.
Agbo, H. A., Okeahialam, B. N., & Daru, P. H. (2016). Obstetric predictors of hypertension: A cross-sectional study of women attending the postnatal clinic of Jos University Teaching Hospital. Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical Association, 57(6), 320-323. https://doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.193856
Agbo, Hadiza A, et al. "Obstetric predictors of hypertension: A cross-sectional study of women attending the postnatal clinic of Jos University Teaching Hospital." Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical Association vol. 57,6 (2016): 320-323. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.193856
Agbo HA, Okeahialam BN, Daru PH. Obstetric predictors of hypertension: A cross-sectional study of women attending the postnatal clinic of Jos University Teaching Hospital. Niger Med J. 2016 Nov-Dec;57(6):320-323. doi: 10.4103/0300-1652.193856. PMID: 27942098; PMCID: PMC5126743.
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Niger Med J. 2016 Nov-Dec;57(6):320-323. doi: 10.4103/0300-1652.193856.

Obstetric predictors of hypertension: A cross-sectional study of women attending the postnatal clinic of Jos University Teaching Hospital.

Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical Association

Hadiza A Agbo, Basil N Okeahialam, Patrick H Daru

Affiliations

  1. Department of Community Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
  2. Department of Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.

PMID: 27942098 PMCID: PMC5126743 DOI: 10.4103/0300-1652.193856

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Hypertensive disease in pregnancy (HDP) accounts for high mother and child morbi-mortality and predict future cardiometabolic diseases. This study aimed to identify obstetric predictors of HDP needing preventive action to reduce its consequences; when women present to antenatal clinic (ANC).

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cross-sectional descriptive this was an Interviewer-administered semi-structured questionnaire-based study of the anthropometric, and blood pressure measurementsin attendees at the postnatal clinic (PNC) of Jos University with ANC records.

SETTING: Six weeks postnatal clinic (PNC) of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH).

RESULTS: The following indices proved predictive of HDP and subsequent hypertension: weight (

CONCLUSION: To initiate preventive action on ANC registration in mitigating effects of or outrightly preventing HDP, careful check on anthropometry as well as history of hypertension or operative/preterm delivery in a previous pregnancy is necessary.

Keywords: Hypertension; Nigeria; obstetric; predictors

Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflicts of interest.

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