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We analyzed 503 blood pressure series from 71 healthy pregnant women and 256 series from 42 women who developed gestational hypertension or preeclampsia. Forty-eight-hour blood pressure monitoring was done once every 4 weeks after the first obstetric consultation. Sensitivity and specificity of the 24-hour mean of blood pressure were computed for each trimester of pregnancy by comparing distributions of values obtained for healthy and complicated pregnancies, without assuming an a priori threshold for diagnosing gestational hypertension on the basis of mean blood pressure. Sensitivity ranges from 31.8% for diastolic blood pressure in the second trimester to 84.1% for systolic blood pressure in the third trimester. However, specificity is as low as 6.9% for diastolic blood pressure in the first trimester. The positive predictive value does not reach 55% for any variable in any trimester. The higher relative risk was consistently obtained for systolic blood pressure (4.9 in the third trimester). Despite the highly statistically significant differences in blood pressure found between healthy and complicated pregnancies in all trimesters, the daily mean of blood pressure does not provide a proper and stable individualized test for diagnosing hypertensive complications in pregnancy. Other indexes obtained from the blood pressure series have been shown, however, to identify early in pregnancy those women who subsequently will develop gestational hypertension or preeclampsia, rendering ambulatory blood pressure monitoring a useful, but still costly, technique in pregnancy.\n          <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1161\/01.hyp.30.6.1531","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,6,12]],"date-time":"2012-06-12T00:53:46Z","timestamp":1339462426000},"page":"1531-1537","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1161\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Diagnosing Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia With the 24-Hour Mean of Blood Pressure"],"prefix":"10.1161","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Ramo\u0301n C.","family":"Hermida","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"From the Bioengineering &amp; Chronobiology Laboratories, ETSI Telecomunicacio\u0301n, University of Vigo, Campus Universitario, Vigo, 36200 Spain."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Diana E.","family":"Ayala","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"From the Bioengineering &amp; Chronobiology Laboratories, ETSI Telecomunicacio\u0301n, University of Vigo, Campus Universitario, Vigo, 36200 Spain."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"276","reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_1_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0002-9378(85)90010-9"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_2","first-page":"445","volume":"75","year":"1990","unstructured":"O\u2019Brien WF. 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