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The incidence of pregnancy induced hypertension in southeast Turkey
Author(s) -
Sumnulu I.,
Ildeniz M.,
Özel N.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(89)90720-0
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , pregnancy , obstetrics , medicine , biology , mathematics , geometry , genetics
One hundred twenty patients with pregnancy‐induced hypertension (PIH) were delivered during 1986. The incidence of pre‐eclampsia and eclampsia, per 1000 births, was 103 and 19, respectively. Two‐thirds of eclamptics were nulliparous and three‐quarters were < 25 years of age. All patients with eclampsia had convulsions before admission. Although maternal mortality was 4% in patients with pre‐eclampsia and 0% in those with eclampsia, the fetal mortality rate was 32% in pre‐eclamptic and 60% in eclamptic patients.