Effects of Monitoring Blood Pressure During Pregnancy

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

wearable device to monitor the blood pressure: Pregnant women began to establish antenatal examination records (usually before 12 weeks of pregnancy), and were enrolled through randomized grouping. Pregnant women in the intervention group were provided with wearable blood pressure monitoring equipment, and ambulate blood pressure monitoring was conducted for at least 2 24 hours per week from 12 weeks of pregnancy until 28 weeks of pregnancy, after which blood pressure monitoring was carried out according to routine antenatal examination.

Study summary

In this study, at least 400 women with high-risk of pregnancy hypertension will use a wearable device to monitor the blood pressure during gestational age from 12 weeks to 28weeks. The observed outcomes including maternal and offspring. Participants were from three hospital including Shanghai Xinhua Hospital, Jiaxing Maternal and Child Health Hospital and Peking University Third Hospital. Pregnant women were randomly divided into control group (routine delivery examination group) and intervention group (routine delivery examination group + use of wearable blood pressure monitoring device group), 200 cases each.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Offspring weight change — up to 24 months
  The offspring would be followed up from birth to 2 years of age at 42days, 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months of birth. Birth weights and weights would be measure in kilograms. The primary outcome the growth curve of the follow-up weights.

Trial sites (1)

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