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Hypertensive disease of pregnancy

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Hypertensive disease of pregnancy, also known as maternal hypertensive disorder is a group of diseases which includes: preeclampsia eclampsia

Hypertensive disease of pregnancy resulted in 29,000 deaths in 2013 down from 37,000 deaths in 1990.[1]


References

  1. ^ GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death, Collaborators (17 December 2014). "Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013". Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2. PMID 25530442. {{cite journal}}: |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)