Yali Deng, Lifei She, Xiaoye Li, Weisi Lai, Ling Yu, Wen Zhang, Yanting Nie, Songyuan Xiao, Hongyu Liu, Yang Zhou, Ting Luo, Wen Deng, Jinyu Liu, Xihong Zhou, Ying Wen, Yanhong Zhong, Lingyi Xiao, Yiling Ding, Mei Peng
This study investigated the implication of monitoring hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) to prevent preeclampsia (PE) in pregnant women of advanced maternal age. Between January 2016 and April 2021, 262 consecutive pregnant women aged ≥40 years were recruited. Extensive monitoring of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, including blood hypercoagulability screening and subsequent interventions, was performed in 129 pregnant women in our university hospital. The remaining 133 patients from other centres, who did not receive antenatal maternal pregnancy screening and preventive intervention during the same period, constituted the non-intervention group enabling comparison to mimic a trial...
2022: Open Medicine (Warsaw, Poland)