Swiss Postpartum Hypertension Cohort

University Hospital Basel

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Postpartum Hypertension (PPHT)

Treatments: Other: Data collection on patient reported outcomes; Other: Data collection for blood pressure (BP); Other: Home-based blood pressure management (substudy); Other: Data collection for parameters of organ damage (cardiac and renal blood markers); Other: Biomarker Profiles (substudy)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04690660

2020-00736 me20Burkard;

Details and patient eligibility

About

This open label, prospective observational, single-center registry is to study short-, intermediate-and long-term course of postpartum hypertension and predictors/risk factors associated with long term cardiovascular and renal risk.

Current disease management strategies will be evaluated.

Enrollment: 480 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
• postpartum hypertension (blood pressure measurements of systolic ≥140 and/or diastolic ≥ 90mmHg or antihypertensive therapy within the first 14 days after delivery)
• women with preexisting hypertension or
• women on antihypertensive medication

Exclusion criteria

• delivery > 14 days
• lack of consent to participate in the study, language barriers or lack of general understanding