# WHO recommendations on drug treatment for non-severe hypertension in pregnancy (2020)

Guideline · id `maternal:pub-who-2020-nonsevere-htn` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `90bf3ae42cf8937c` (public)

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## In plain language

WHO's 2020 advice on whether pregnant women with mild to moderate high blood pressure should take blood pressure medicine.

## Technical summary

WHO guideline, 2020. ISBN 978-92-4-000879-3 (electronic). Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. The WHO publication page shows 11 August 2020 and the IRIS record gives an issue date of 2020-08-13. For this guideline WHO defines non-severe hypertension as a diastolic blood pressure of 90–109 mmHg and/or a systolic blood pressure of 140–159 mmHg. It predates the CHAP report (2022). Whether WHO has issued a newer recommendation was not checked.

## Connected pages

- Issued by: World Health Organization (`maternal:who`)

## Provenance

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Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-14