Control of hypertension in pregnancy - If some is good, is more worse?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 475-476

  Solomon, Caren G ^b   Greene, Michael F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CESAREAN SECTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECLAMPSIA; EDITORIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG EDEMA; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OBESITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 84921872310     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1414836     Document Type: Editorial

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