Severe pre-eclampsia and changing paternity in multiparae - abstract
West Indian med. j
; West Indian med. j;42(Suppl. 1): 57-8, Apr. 1993.
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ABSTRACT
Some investigations exist in the current literature regarding a possible association between pre-eclampsia (PH-gestosis) and changing paternity in multigravid women. This study explored this relationship in a cohort of pre-eclamptic multigravid women in a Caribbean community. The study population included multigravid women whose infants were admitted to the neonatal department of the University Hospital, Guadeloupe, French West Indies, during a twenty-month time period. Information was collected from the women regarding blood pressure and patterns of paternity for the index and pevious pregnancies. Women with hypertension were classified as chronic hypertensive or PH-gestosis (gestational proteinuric hypertension). The comparison group comprised women without hypertension. In twenty-one of the thirty-four (61.7 per cent) women with PH-gestosis, the father of the index pregnancy was different from the father of the former pregnancy. Among the women with chronic hypertension, 4 of 40 (10 per cent) women had changed partners from the previous pregnancy as compared to 10 of 60 (16.6 per cent) of the women in the comparison group. After simultaneously controlling for maternal age, infant sex, and gravidity, mothers with changing paternity continued to experience gestosis more often. Patterns of changing paternity were found to be significantly correlated with gestosis but not with chronic hypertension or the absence of hypertension (p < 0.001) (AU)
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Paridade
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Pré-Eclâmpsia
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
West Indian med. j
Ano de publicação:
1993
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Article
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