Abstract

To evaluate the relationship between maternal body mass index (BMI) and the risk of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension. Design: Observational cross sectional study. Subjects: The total sample size was taken 200, out of which 31 were gestational hypertensive and 169 the gestational normotensive based upon set of inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria. Methods: Blood pressure was measured intermittently, height and weight,urinary excretion of uric acid and their biochemical investigations were taken into account and hence divided categorically under clinically diagnosed gestational hypertensive and normotensive. And thus with the calculation of BMI by height and weight, their BMI was compared between normotensive and hypertensive using pvalue. Tests for differences in crude incidence proportions were performed using Chi-square tests.Thestudy was carried out after seeking approval from SVIEC, Vadodara. Results: The proportion of patients having gestational hypertension and normal hypertension was 31:167, whose mean value of BMI were respectively 23.9341 and 22.04296. Though none came under obese category. Taking mean and standard deviation into consideration, the gestational women with higher BMI showed higher risk of developing gestational hypertension than normotensive women(1.03E-19<0.05). Conclusions: We found that women with low BMI were significantly less likely to develop gestational hypertension or preeclampsia than women with a normal BM

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