Fetomaternal Outcome in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are one of the most common non communicable diseases occurring in pregnancy. It is a spectrum of disease occurring in pregnancy. Its incidence ranges from 10 - 22% of all pregnancies. 1 Gestational hypertension is defined as the new onset hypertension SBP >/= 140 mm Hg or DBP >/= 90 mm Hg on two occasions measured 4 hours apart, occurring for the first time after 20 weeks period of gestation in a previously normotensive woman and returning back to normal within 12 weeks of delivery, not associated with proteinuria.