PREVALENCE OF HYPERTENSION AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN IN NSUKKA URBAN, ENUGU STATE (2007 - 2011)

📄 Project Abstract

Globally, pregnant mothers face different complications that may endanger their lives and their foetuses. Such complications include haemorrhage, obstructed labour, sepsis, abortion and hypertension. Among these complications, hypertension contributes directly or indirectly to millions of material deaths each year around the world. Lucas and Gilles (2003) opined that in many developing countries, complications of pregnancy and child birth are the leading causes of death among women of reproductive age. Hypertension in pregnancy has been a disease of great concern. UNICEF (2001) and WHO (2002) estimated that in Nigeria, there is a raising prevalence of pregnancy induced-hypertension ranging from 10-15 per cent of direct medical causes of maternal mortality. Worldwide, it is far greater problem with an estimated 72, 000 deaths annually due to lack of awareness of the health problem (Baker, 2006). Similarly, this disease is at a high prevalence in Nigeria which is a developing country whe...