Intensive Postpartum Antihypertensive Treatment

Summary

The long-term goal of our work is to evaluate the effect of intensive postpartum blood pressure control on maternal cardiovascular health, risk of chronic hypertension, and reversal of vascular dysfunction generated by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, thus attenuating the lifelong trajectory of cardiovascular disease risk.

Timeline

Start

2023-09-01

Primary completion

2026-03-31

Completion

2026-08-30

Publications

• Palatnik A, Sunji N, Peterson Z, Ohlendorf J, Pan AY, Kulinski J. Intensive postpartum antihypertensive treatment (IPAT) and healthy lifestyle education: Study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial for patients with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Dec;147:107710. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2024.107710. Epub 2024 Oct 10.

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