The risk of serious adverse pregnancy outcomes for women with chronic hypertension who did not develop preeclampsia (a complication characterized by high blood pressure) was nearly the same as the risk for women without chronic hypertension or hypertensive disorders developing during pregnancy, according to a recent Kaiser Permanente study titled “Severe Maternal Morbidity Associated With Chronic Hypertension, Preeclampsia, and Gestational Hypertension.”
Published in JAMA Network Open, the research was led by Erica P. Gunderson, PhD, MPH, a senior research scientist with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and a professor at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, and coauthored by KPSOM alum Michael Najem, MD, a Resident Physician in Internal Medicine at UC San Diego Health and KPSOM graduate and Mara Greenberg, MD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist with the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center.
