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Pre‐eclampsia, hypertension and the premenstrual tension syndrome
Author(s) -
Andersch B.,
Svensson A.,
Hansson L.
Publication year - 1990
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(90)90476-2
Subject(s) - medicine , premenstrual tension , eclampsia , pregnancy , chronic hypertension , obstetrics , hypertension in pregnancy , menstrual cycle , gynecology , preeclampsia , hormone , biology , genetics
A total of 261 of 17,000 pregnancies were complicated by pre‐eclampsia/hypertension in pregnancy. Seven to twelve years later 237 were available for follow‐up together with 33 women, who had a normotensive pregnancy in 1969–1973. The association between pre‐eclampsia/hypertension and the premenstrual tension syndrome has been studied. Women with present hypertension complained significantly (P < 0.05) more of premenstrual sadness than the normotensive women. However, women with previous pre‐eclampsia/hypertension in pregnancy did not have more premenstrual symptoms than women in general, on the contrary, women with a history of severe pre‐eclampsia had less symptoms.