Abstract:Introduction: Preeclampsia increases the longterm risk of cardiovascular disease. Some of the women affected by this condition remain hypertensive after delivery. Hypertensive phenotypes such as masked hypertension, sustained hypertension, white coat hypertension and an adverse systolic night-today blood pressure (BP) ratio are often unnoticed and can only be detected with ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM). This study aimed to determine the prevalence of hypertension using ABPM and office measurements.
Methods:W… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.