Report of the Working Group on Research on Hypertension During Pregnancy

Meeting Held April 27, 2001
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

NHLBI Web pages

• General information on high blood pressure in pregnancy <http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/issues/preg/preg.htm>

• Print-ready background sheet<http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/hbp_preg.htm>.

• News release, “NHLBI Publishes Update on High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy” <http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/press-releases/2000/nhlbi-publishes-update-on-high-blood-pressure-in-pregnancy.html>.

• NHLBI Working Group Report on High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy
  <http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/heart/hbp/hbp_preg.htm>

• Working Group Report on High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy slide show <http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/nhbpep_slds/menu.htm#preg_ss>

Other sources that might be of interest

• MEDLINEplus: Preeclampsia  <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/preeclampsia.html>
• National Center for Health Statistics

• FastStats A to Z, “Pregnancy Risk Factors,” <http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/pregrisk.htm>
• Births: Final Data for 1998. Vol. 48, No. 3. National Vital Statistics Report (NVSR), 3/28/00. <http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_3.pdf>.

• Risk factors associated with preeclampsia in healthy nulliparous women. The Calcium for Preeclampsia Prevention (CPEP) Study Group. Sibai BM - Am J Obstet Gynecol - 1997 Nov; 177(5): 1003-10.
• American Heart Association: Safeguarding your heart during pregnancy <http://women.americanheart.org/self_care/sub_content/safeguard.html>