Hypertension (high blood pressure)

Blood pressure that stays higher than it should over time.

Also called High blood pressure

Condition
In 2 atlases

Overview

Technical summary

Persistently raised arterial pressure. Diagnostic and treatment thresholds differ by guideline and measurement method, so each threshold or target must be cited to a specific guideline edition.

Burden

No burden claims are published.

Claims and evidence

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Clinical links

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Claim, not a settled fact Risk raised by: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (Associated with a higher risk of, seen from the other side)
Applies to Maternal
- Women who have had any hypertensive disorder of pregnancy (chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension or pre-eclampsia), compared by NICE with women who did not have one. The risks NICE reports are overall estimates drawn from several studies.
- Advice at transfer to community care after a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy.
- England. NICE's terms and conditions present the information on its websites as support for people in England who make decisions about funding care (clause 6) and say it is not written as a basis for decisions outside the United Kingdom (clause 8). The guideline page states no jurisdiction of its own.
- Postpartum and later life
- Gestational age Not reported
- Postnatal age Not reported
Follow-up NICE gives no single follow-up time: it says follow-up in the underlying studies ranged from 1 to 40 years postpartum.
NICE (recommendation 1.10.2) tells clinicians to explain to women who had any type of hypertensive disorder during pregnancy that these disorders are linked with a raised chance of hypertension and cardiovascular disease as they get older. NICE’s Table 6 gives approximate sizes of the increase for each type of disorder.
Limitations. This is guidance that summarises other studies, not a new analysis. It covers any hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, so it must not be read as pre-eclampsia alone carrying the risk; Table 6 has separate columns for pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension and chronic hypertension, and some cells say the risk may be increased or give no data. NICE says the figures in the table are overall estimates that condense results reported as risk, odds or hazard ratios, and that the comparison group is women who did not have a hypertensive disorder in pregnancy. Table 6 marks the later-hypertension row as not applicable for chronic hypertension. The table gives no absolute risks, since they depend on the follow-up time. The page does not state a jurisdiction; England is inferred from the issuer.

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