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Arterial Blood Pressure - The Pattern of Change in Twin Pregnancies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

D.M. Campbell  and
A.J. Campbell
D.M. Campbell*
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology/Physiology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
A.J. Campbell
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences & Computer Studies, Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen, Scotland
*
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB9 2ZD, Scotland

Abstract

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An epidemiological study of all primigravid twin pregnancies delivered in Aberdeen between 1950 and 1969 was performed to determine the pattern of arterial blood pressure changes. There is a greater fall from non-pregnant levels in diastolic blood pressure by mid pregnancy and a greater rise of diastolic pressure by delivery. These changes are independent of age, body size and rate of weight gain during pregnancy. The expected increased incidence of proteinuric pre-eclampsia is also independent of rate of weight gain when defined for twin pregnancies.

Keywords

Blood pressureTwin pregnancyPre-eclampsia
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 34 , Issue 3-4 , October 1985 , pp. 217 - 223
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1985

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