“…Most studies concur that diastolic blood pressure (DBP) decreases during the first trimester, is stable or slightly reduced during the second trimester and increases during the third trimester [4,16,17,21,34]. MAP seems to parallel the changes of DBP [2,[5][6][7]12,13,[19][20][21]23,25,[29][30][31][32]35] (Table 1 and supplementary table S2, http://links.lww.com/COOG/ A1). Taking into account only the studies in which BP was measured following the National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy (NHBPEPWG) recommendations, agreement is found on the fact…”