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Preeclampsia, eclampsia, hypertension in pregnancy

 

Afghanistan

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevention and management of severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in Afghanistan [2013]

Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Maternal lipid profile and risk of pre-eclampsia in African pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

Australia

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Indications for commencing aspirin for the prevention of pregnancy-induced hypertension and pre-eclampsia spectrum disorders [2022]

• Better Safer Care
  • Hypertension in pregnancy

• Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Risk of pre-eclampsia
  • Blood pressure

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Hypertension and pregnancy

Australia, New Zealand

• Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
  • Guideline for the Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy [2014]

Bangladesh, Nigeria

• Journal of Global Health
  • “What’s in a name?”: Exploring inconsistent and contradictory definitions and clinical guidelines for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy from published literature from Nigeria and Bangladesh [2020]

Brazil

• Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
  • 7th Brazilian Guideline of Arterial Hypertension: Chapter 9 - Arterial Hypertension in pregnancy [2016]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Situational analysis of facilitators and barriers to availability and utilization of magnesium sulfate for eclampsia and severe preeclampsia in the public health system in Brazil [2016]

• Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
  • Prevalence of Preeclampsia in Brazil: An Integrative Review [2022]
  • Pre-eclampsia: Universal Screening or Universal Prevention for Low and Middle-Income Settings? [2021]

Burkina Faso

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Low prevalence of high blood pressure in pregnant women in Burkina Faso: a cross-sectional study [2022]

Canada

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Incidence and risk factors for severe preeclampsia, hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count syndrome, and eclampsia at preterm and term gestation: a population-based study [2021]

• Hypertension Canada
  • Hypertension Canada’s 2018 Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy [2018]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Maternal Hypertension in Canada

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Prediction, Prevention, and Management [2022]

China

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Characteristics and fetal outcomes of pregnant women with hypertensive disorders in China: a 9-year national hospital-based cohort study [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • Associations of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A level with essential hypertension and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy in Chinese population: a meta-analysis of 20 research studies involving 3332 individuals [2015]

• China CDC Weekly
  • Incidence and Risk Factors of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy — 8 Provinces, China, 2014–2018 [2021]

China, Sweden

• JAMA Network Open
  • Preeclampsia Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Pregnancy Outcomes in Sweden and China [2021]

China, United States

• Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
  • Differences in epidemiology of patients with preeclampsia between China and the US (Review) [2021]

Colombia

• Colombia Médica
  • Reduction of maternal mortality due to preeclampsia in Colombia-an interrupted time-series analysis [2014]

Croatia

• European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
  • Croatian society for perinatal medicine: Consensus statement and recommendations for the risk assessment of preeclampsia [2021]

Denmark

• BMJ
  • Pre-eclampsia and risk of later kidney disease: nationwide cohort study [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and peripartum cardiomyopathy: A nationwide cohort study [2019]

Developing countries

• BMC Public Health
  • Role of calcium supplementation during pregnancy in reducing risk of developing gestational hypertensive disorders: a meta-analysis of studies from developing countries [2011]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Maternal and perinatal outcomes of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
  • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: a systemic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • The impact of pregnancy induced hypertension on low birth weight in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and determinants of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

Europe

• BMJ Open
  • Use of magnesium sulfate before 32 weeks of gestation: a European population-based cohort study [2017]

Europe, United States

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Planned delivery or expectant management in preeclampsia: an individual participant data meta-analysis [2022]

Finland

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • The diagnosis of pre-eclampsia using two revised classifications in the Finnish Pre-eclampsia Consortium (FINNPEC) cohort [2016]

France

• Journal of Clinical Hypertension
  • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in France (2010-2018): The nationwide CONCEPTION study [2021]

Ghana

• Women and Birth
  • A qualitative document analysis of policies influencing preeclampsia management by midwives in Ghana [2022]

High-income countries

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Self-monitoring of blood pressure among women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a systematic review [2022]

Indonesia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) management pathways: results of a Delphi survey to contextualise international recommendations for Indonesian primary care settings [2021]

International

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association blood pressure categories-a systematic review of the relationship with adverse pregnancy outcomes in the first half of pregnancy [2023]
  • Toward personalized management of chronic hypertension in pregnancy [2022]

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • A core outcome set for pre-eclampsia research: an international consensus development study [2020]
  • Clinical practice patterns on the use of magnesium sulphate for treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia: a multi-country survey [2016]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Epidemiological trends of maternal hypertensive disorders of pregnancy at the global, regional, and national levels: a population-based study [2021]
  • Are hypertensive disorders in pregnancy associated with congenital malformations in offspring? Evidence from the WHO Multicountry cross sectional survey on maternal and newborn health [2016]

• BMJ Open
  • Assessment of the quality and content of national and international guidelines on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy using the AGREE II instrument [2016]

• British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
  • How to manage hypertension in pregnancy effectively [2011]

• CMAJ Open
  • Home blood pressure monitoring in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• Current Hypertension Reports
  • Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Comparison of International Guidelines [2020]

• Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease: Current National and International Guidelines and the Need for Future Research [2019]

• Intergrowth-21st
  • International gestational age-specific centiles for blood pressure in pregnancy from the INTERGROWTH-21st Project in 8 countries: A longitudinal cohort study [2021]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and long-term cardiovascular health: FIGO Best Practice Advice [2023]
  • The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) initiative on pre-eclampsia: A pragmatic guide for first-trimester screening and prevention [2019]

• International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • ISUOG Practice Guidelines: role of ultrasound in screening for and follow-up of pre-eclampsia [2019]

• Medicine
  • Risk of future cardiovascular diseases in different years postpartum after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • Systematic literature review on the neonatal outcome of preeclampsia [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Systematic review of prediction models for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia [2020]
  • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of International Clinical Practice Guidelines [2014]

• Pregnancy Hypertension
  • Standardising definitions for the pre-eclampsia core outcome set: A consensus development study [2020]

• Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Factors effective in the prevention of Preeclampsia: A systematic review [2020]

• Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Multicenter screening for pre-eclampsia by maternal factors and biomarkers at 11–13 weeks' gestation: comparison with NICE guidelines and ACOG recommendations [2017]
  • Implementation of the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio for prediction and diagnosis of pre-eclampsia in singleton pregnancy: implications for clinical practice [2015]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Diagnosis and management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [2016]

• Pregnancy Hypertension
  • Hypertension in pregnancy: Prevalence, risk factors and outcomes for women birthing in Ireland [2021]

Italy

• European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
  • Italian Advisory Board: sFlt-1/PlGF ratio and preeclampsia, state of the art and developments in diagnostic, therapeutic and clinical management [2016]

Japan

• Hypertension Research
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: definition, management, and out-of-office blood pressure measurement [2022]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Open
  • Exploring digital health interventions for pregnant women at high risk for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in low-income and-middle-income countries: a scoping review [2022]

• Global Heart
  • Prevention and Screening for Cardiometabolic Disease Following Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy in Low-Resource Settings: A Systematic Review and Delphi Study [2023]

• Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
  • Diagnosis and management of preeclampsia in community settings in low and middle-income countries [2015]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Sexual violence and eclampsia: analysis of data from Demographic and Health Surveys from seven low- and middle-income countries [2019]

Mexico

• Salud Pública de México
  • Treating patients with severe preeclampsia and eclampsia in Oaxaca, Mexico [2014]

Mongolia

• Pregnancy Hypertension
  • Prevalence of Pregnancy Hypertensive Disorders in Mongolia [2016]

Nepal

• Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
  • Optimizing treatment for the prevention of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in Nepal: is calcium supplementation during pregnancy cost-effective? [2016]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension and Pre-eclampsia in Pregnancy in New Zealand: A clinical practice guideline [2018]

• New Zealand College of Midwives
  • Guidance regarding the use of low-dose aspirin in the prevention of pre-eclampsia in high-risk women [2018]

Nigeria

• Annals of African Medicine
  • The use of magnesium sulphate for the treatment of severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [2009]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Factors influencing the use of magnesium sulphate in pre-eclampsia/eclampsia management in health facilities in Northern Nigeria: a mixed methods study [2015]

Norway

• Hypertension
  • Preconception Cardiovascular Risk Factor Differences Between Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia: Cohort Norway Study [2016]

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health
  • First trimester-screening for the development of preeclampsia with the use of an algorithm [2022]
  • Safety, clinical effectiveness, predictive accuracy and cost effectiveness of blood based tests for women with suspected preeclampsia [2020]

• Pregnancy Hypertension
  • Substantial decrease in preeclampsia prevalence and risk over two decades: A population-based study of 1,153,227 deliveries in Norway [2022]

Portugal

• Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
  • Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia: An Update on the Pharmacological Treatment Applied in Portugal [2018]

Qatar

• Qatar Medical Journal
  • A review of eclampsia in Qatar: A twenty-year study (from January 1991-December 2009) [2013]

South Africa

• South African Medical Journal
  • Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy: 2019 National guideline [2019]

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy [2022]
  • Management of hypertensive disease in pregnancy [2021]
  • Management of Eclampsia [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Systematic review of observational studies of the impact of cardiovascular risk factors on preeclampsia in sub-saharan Africa [2021]

• Women's Health
  • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

Switzerland

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Incidence of preeclampsia in pregnant Swiss women [2015]

Taiwan

• Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Effect of maternal hypertensive disorders during pregnancy on offspring's early childhood body weight: A population-based cohort study [2022]
  • Trends in the incidence of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Taiwan between 1998 and 2010 [2015]

Tanzania

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Factors associated with blood pressure check-up during pregnancy among women of reproductive age in Tanzania: an analysis of data from 2015—16 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicators Survey [2021]

Trinidad and Tobago

• Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago
  • Hypertension in Pregnancy [2018]

United Kingdom

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • An evaluation of the influence of the publication of the UK National Institute for health and Care Excellence’s guidance on hypertension in pregnancy: a retrospective analysis of clinical practice [2020]

• BMJ Open
  • Implementation of national antenatal hypertension guidelines: a multicentre multiple methods study [2020]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis and management [2023]
  • PLGF-based testing to help diagnose suspected preterm pre-eclampsia [2022]
  • Lumella point-of-care test for assessing pre-eclampsia risk [2022]
  • Identification of hypertension in pregnancy [2021]
  • Hypertension in pregnancy [2019]

• NHS England
  • Recommendations for digital blood pressure monitoring in maternity services [2023]

• PharmacoEconomics - Open
  • Cost-Utility Analysis of Planned Early Delivery or Expectant Management for Late Preterm Pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX) [2022]

• Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Comparison of diagnostic accuracy of early screening for pre-eclampsia by NICE guidelines and a method combining maternal factors and biomarkers: results of SPREE [2018]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Management of Postpartum Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy [2023]
  • Screening for Preeclampsia [2017]

• American College of Cardiology
  • 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines [2018]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Clinical Guidance for the Integration of the Findings of the Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy (CHAP) Study [2022]
  • Low-Dose Aspirin Use for the Prevention of Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality [2021]
  • Low-Dose Aspirin Use During Pregnancy [2018]

• American Heart Association
  • Hypertension in Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Blood Pressure Goals, and Pharmacotherapy: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2022]

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Prepregnancy adherence to dietary recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in relation to risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy [2020]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Lifestyle and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in nulliparous women in the United States: a secondary data analysis of the nuMom2b [2023]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy and Mortality at Delivery Hospitalization — United States, 2017–2019 [2022]

• Hypertension
  • Historical and Recent Changes in Maternal Mortality Due to Hypertensive Disorders in the United States, 1979 to 2018 [2021]
  • Research Recommendations from the National Institutes of Health Workshop on Predicting, Preventing and Treating Preeclampsia [2019]
  • Estimated Impact of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guidelines on Reproductive-Aged Women [2018]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Estimated Prevalence of Risk Factors for Preeclampsia Among Individuals Giving Birth in the US in 2019 [2022]
  • Association of Birth Year of Pregnant Individuals With Trends in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy in the United States, 1995-2019 [2022]

• Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
  • A Critical Review on the Use of Race in Understanding Racial Disparities in Preeclampsia [2021]

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Trends in the Incidence of New-Onset Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Among Rural and Urban Areas in the United States, 2007 to 2019 [2022]
  • Temporal Trends in Pregnancy-Associated Stroke and Its Outcomes Among Women With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy [2020]
  • Maternal Race/Ethnicity, Hypertension, and Risk for Stroke During Delivery Admission [2020]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Severe Hypertension During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2017]

• Open Nursing Journal
  • Management of Chronic and Gestational Hypertension of Pregnancy: A Guide for Primary Care Nurse Practitioners [2018]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Statement: Antihypertensive therapy for mild chronic hypertension in pregnancy–The Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy trial [2022]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: A quality metric for evaluating timely treatment of severe hypertension [2022]
  • SMFM Special Statement: Quality metric for timely postpartum follow-up after severe hypertension [2022]
  • Preeclampsia: a report and recommendations of the workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Preeclampsia Foundation [2022]
  • Executive summary: Workshop on Preeclampsia, January 25–26, 2021, cosponsored by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Preeclampsia Foundation [2021]
  • SMFM Special Statement: Checklists for preeclampsia risk-factor screening to guide recommendations for prophylactic low-dose aspirin [2020]
  • SMFM Special Statement: Checklist for postpartum discharge of women with hypertensive disorders [2020]
  • SMFM Statement: benefit of antihypertensive therapy for mild-to-moderate chronic hypertension during pregnancy remains uncertain [2015]
  • Evaluation and management of severe preeclampsia before 34 weeks' gestation [2011]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Preventive Medication [2021]
  • Preeclampsia: Screening [2017]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO recommendations on antiplatelet agents for the prevention of pre-eclampsia [2021]
  • WHO recommendations on drug treatment for non-severe hypertension in pregnancy [2020]
  • WHO recommendation on calcium supplementation before pregnancy for the prevention of pre-eclampsia and its complications [2020]
  • WHO recommendations: drug treatment for severe hypertension in pregnancy [2018]
  • WHO recommendations: Policy of interventionist versus expectant management of severe pre-eclampsia before term [2018]
  • WHO recommendation: Calcium supplementation during pregnancy for the prevention of pre-eclampsia and its complications [2018]
  • WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia: implications and actions [2014]
  • Pre-eclampsia, eclampsia and adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes: a secondary analysis of the World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health [2014]
  • Guideline: Calcium supplementation in pregnant women [2013]
  • WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia: evidence base [2011]
  • WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [2011]
  • Managing eclampsia [2008]
  • Hypertensive disorders

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