Does a strategy of targeting a blood pressure of less than 140/90 mm Hg improve pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with mild chronic hypertension?
Targeting blood pressure <140/90 mm Hg in pregnant women with mild chronic hypertension improves pregnancy outcomes without increasing the risk of small-for-gestational-age birth weight.
In pregnant women with mild chronic hypertension, a strategy of targeting a blood pressure of less than 140/90 mm Hg was associated with better pregnancy outcomes than a strategy of reserving treatment only for severe hypertension, with no increase in the risk of small-for-gestational-age birth weight. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; CHAP ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02299414.).
Tita et al. (Sat,) studied this question.