Magister Curationis - MCur / Pregnancy induced hypertension is one of the causes of maternal, fetus and
neonatal morbidity and mortality. It is the condition in which a pregnant woman develops
hypertension because of physiological changes that result during pregnancy and both mother
and fetus can be affected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the first
target of the third United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG-3) is to reduce the
maternal mortality rate (MMR) to less than 10 per 100.000 live births by 2030 (WHO, 2017).
This is because globally, about 350 000 women die every year from pregnancy related causes
(Hogan, Foreman, & Naghavi, 2010). According to the WHO (2015), these conditions
namely post-partum hemorrhage, hypertension in pregnancy, infections, unsafe abortion and
other delivery-related complications cause three quarters of all maternal deaths in the World.
Hence the needs to prevent or successfully treat conditions that contribute to this scourge
(WHO, 2011). The two main interventions that are used to prevent or treat hypertension in
pregnancy are medication and lifestyle adjustment. However, it is important to understand the
intervention that is most suited to a context and its patient and compare the effects of these
interventions on management of hypertension in pregnant women as a patient outcome.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/6314 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Kutumbuka, Benjamin Kukatula |
| Contributors | Phetlhu, D.R. |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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