WHO recommendations on drug treatment for non-severe hypertension in pregnancy (2020)
WHO's 2020 advice on whether pregnant women with mild to moderate high blood pressure should take blood pressure medicine.
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Overview
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.
About this guideline
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- Edition
- WHO recommendations, 2020.
- Published
- 2020-08-11
- Status
- Not checked for a newer edition
- Scope
- Antihypertensive drug treatment for non-severe (mild to moderate) hypertension during pregnancy, as WHO defines it for this guideline.
Source
- Document
- WHO recommendations on drug treatment for non-severe hypertension in pregnancy
- Publisher
- World Health Organization
- Edition note
- 2020. The WHO publication page shows 11 August 2020; the IRIS record (handle 10665/333816) gives an issue date of 2020-08-13. The text comes from the PDF on IRIS, fetched through the IRIS REST API because the older IRIS bitstream links no longer serve the PDF. Electronic ISBN 978-92-4-000879-3. The guideline predates the CHAP report (2022). Whether WHO has issued a newer recommendation was not checked here.
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Record details
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maternal:pub-who-2020-nonsevere-htn- Content hash
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