TITLE:
Socio-Demographic Factors, Clinical Characteristics and Maternal Prognosis of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy at Panzi General Referral Hospital
AUTHORS:
Mushera Aganze Alain, Musese Nguru Marie Constance, Julien Bwama Botalatala, Mbozi Andrea, Andre Nakalonge, Raha Maroyi Kenny, Olivier Nyakio
KEYWORDS:
Hypertensive Disorders, Maternal Prognosis, Socio-Demographic Factors, Panzi General Referral Hospital
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Vol.13 No.5,
May
26,
2023
ABSTRACT: Background: Hypertensive disease in pregnancy is an important
cause of morbidity, long-term disability, and maternal and neonatal mortality.
The aim is to determine the
socio-demographic characteristics and maternal prognosis of these women
with Hypertension during pregnancy. Material and Method: We conducted a
cross-sectional study, we interview patients and after discussion we
transcripts in a database in Excel software before analysis with SPSS version
20.0 and Stata 14.0 The qualitative variables have been summarised by the
Percentage and the quantitative variables will be summarised by Means and
Standard Deviation. The associations of the variables were calculated by
Pearson’s chi-square test with a significance level set at a
p-value Result: The average age of the patients was 30.33 ± 7.020 years, 92.1% were married, 79.8% lived in
urban areas, most of the patients were overweight (43%), 92.1% of them had
monofetal pregnancies, 36% were multiparous, 34.2% had a previous history of
preeclampsia in pregnancy and 14% were known to have hypertension.
Pre-eclampsia was the most frequent form of hypertension in pregnancy with
73.68% of cases and represents 84.8% of severe forms of hypertension in
pregnancy, 53.4% of the patients delivered vaginally. Eclampsia was the most
frequent complication in our patients with 31.7%
frequency and among the socio-demographic parameters, age and body mass index
were significantly associated with maternal complications. Conclusion: Maternal age and body mass index are important socio-demographic
factors associated with the occurrence of maternal complications in women with
hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.