International Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Risk factors consistently shown to be associated with increased rate of PIH include chronic hypertension, high prepregnancy BMI, advanced maternal age, family history of preeclampsia or cardiovascular disease, preexisting medical conditions such as hypertension, renal disease, diabetes with vasculopathy and obstetrics indications such as multiple gestation and hydrops foetalis, nulliparity, history of previous preeclamptic pregnancy. All the pregnant women with ? 20 weeks of gestation who fulfilled the selection criteria registered in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, enrolled in this study. In this study the frequency of preterm neonates was noted in 18.52% of the mothers with APE compared to 27.66% of the mothers with SPE and 11.11% of the mothers with MPE while none of the mother had preterm neonate (0%) in women with normal pregnancy and this difference was statistically significant (p<0.001). In this study maximum number of babies who were born to the women with APE developed complications (22.22) compared to 10.64% who were born to the mothers with SPE, 7.41% of the neonates who were born to women with MPE and 10% of the neonates who were born to the mothers with normal pregnancy. But this difference was statistically not significant (p=0.271).