In pregnant women with mild chronic hypertension, a strategy of targeting blood pressure to <140/90 mm Hg was associated with better pregnancy outcomes compared with a strategy of reserving treatment only for women with severe hypertension, with no increase in the risk of small-for-gestational-age birth weight, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. “Chronic hypertension causes serious and life-threatening complications for pregnant women and their babies,” said Alan Tita, MD, Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birming...
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