Abstract
Background: Hypertension is one of the major complications of pregnancy. Its impact in type 2
diabetic pregnant women could be understimated because it is generally evaluated by
retrospective studies and as one of the outcome measures.
Objective: Our aims were: 1) to evaluate the prevalence of hypertensive disease between type
2 diabetic and normal pregnancies; 2) to relate hypertensive disease to body weight
in type 2 diabetic pregnancies; 3) to assess the impact of different types of hypertension
on pregnancy outcome in type 2 diabetic women.
Study Design: Seventy-six type 2 diabetic (23 normal-weight, 26 overweight and 27 obese) and sixty
normal (43, 15 and 2 respectively; x2 0.0001) pregnancies, matched for age and smoking habit. Hypertension was defined
as ≥140/90 mmHg and classified in chronic, gestational and pre-eclampsia.
Statistical Analysis: Student's t-test, χ2, simple, and/or multiple and logistic regression analysis were used when appropriate.
Odds ratio was calculated for hypertension. p significant <0.05.
Results: The overall prevalence of hypertension was 40.8% (18.4% chronic, 17.1% gestational
and 5.3% pre-eclampsia) in type 2 diabetic pregnancies and 10% (8.3% gestational and
1.7% pre-eclampsia) in normal pregnancies (p<0.0001), with an odds ratio of 6.2. All
the types of hypertension, significantly chronic, contributed to the higher prevalence.
Only in diabetic pregnancies, hypertension was associated with a higher pregestational
BMI; whenever BMI increased, chronic and gestational hypertension increased by contrast
of pre-eclampsia (χ2, 0.02). Hypertensive disorders did not affect maternal-fetal outcome.
Conclusions: The prevalence of hypertension was 40.8% in type 2 diabetic pregnant women whilst
it was 10.0% in non diabetic controls. All hypertensive disorders, significantly chronic,
were more frequent. Increasing BMI was a crucial factor for chronic and gestational
but not for pre-eclampsia. Hypertensive diseases did not seem to affect pregnancy
outcome.
Key words
type 2 diabetes mellitus - hypertension - pregnancy
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Correspondence
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