Improving the pregnancy surveillance system for pregnant women with arterial hypertension on the regional level

Abstract

The paper provides results of social-hygienic study of risk factors for the arterial hypertension in pregnant women, describes indicators for this risk, suggests changes in the existing system of rendering treatment and diagnostic aid and rehabilitation for women with the arterial hypertension. As a result of scientific experiment, the total index of the maternal lethality reached 18.8 per 100 000 children born alive. The infant and the perinatal mortality in the Oblast was 7.8 % and 9.3 %, respectively. There was a decrease in the infant mortality among the infants of up to 1 year age caused by peculiarities of the female perinatal period and associated with the arterial hypertension.