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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2003) 18: 1456-1457
© 2003 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Personal Opinion

When should pregnant women with an elevated blood pressure be treated?

Volker Homuth, Ralf Dechend and Friedrich C. Luft

Franz Volhard Clinic, HELIOS-Klinikum Berlin, Medical Faculty of the Charité, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Volker Homuth, Franz Volhard Clinic, Wiltberg Strasse 50, D-13125 Berlin, Germany. Email: homuth@fvk-berlin.de

Keywords: antihypertensives; hypertension; non-target effects; pregnancy

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Hypertension in pregnancy continues to be a vexing clinical problem. The dilemma is amplified by the fact that today, women are choosing to have their children later in life. At a recent symposium on hypertension and pregnancy at the German Society of Hypertension (Deutsche Liga zur Bekämpfung des hohen Blutdrucks), the authors made the statement that totally asymptomatic pregnant women with a normally developing pregnancy, who have no other concomitant medical problems, need not be treated with medications unless their blood pressure exceeds 170/110 mmHg. This statement led to some consternation in the audience and we were asked to formally . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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