RT Book, Section A1 Cunningham, F. Gary A1 Leveno, Kenneth J. A1 Dashe, Jodi S. A1 Hoffman, Barbara L. A1 Spong, Catherine Y. A1 Casey, Brian M. SR Print(0) ID 1190768096 T1 Chronic Hypertension T2 Williams Obstetrics, 26e YR 2022 FD 2022 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781260462739 LK obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190768096 RD 2024/10/10 AB In reproductive-aged women, the prevalence of hypertension approximates 6 percent (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). Thus, not surprisingly, chronic hypertension is one of the most common serious complications encountered during pregnancy. In one study of more than 56 million births, the incidence was 1.8 percent (Bateman, 2012). Chronic hypertension complicated 2.3 percent of pregnancies in data from the Medicaid Analytic Extract (Bateman, 2015). Despite an increasing prevalence from 1970 to 2010, optimal management has not been well studied (Ananth, 2019).