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Table 3 Incidence of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in relation to maternal outcomes

From: The burden of maternal morbidity and mortality attributable to hypertensive disorders in pregnancy: a prospective cohort study from Uganda

Hypertensive disorder

All Hypertensive disorders

Maternal deaths

Maternal near miss

NLTC

Number (percentage)

Number (percentage)

Number (percentage)

Number (percentage)

N = 403

N = 20

N = 222

N = 161

Severe Preeclampsia

218 (54.1)

5 (25.0)

79 (11.4)

134 (83.20)

Eclampsia

172 (42.7)

13 (65.0)

132 (19.0)

27 (16.8)

Chronic Hypertension

4 (1.0)

0 (0.0)

4 (0.6)

0 (0.0)

HELLP Syndrome

9 (2.2)

2 (10.0)

7 (1.0)

0 (0.0)

  1. Abbreviation: NLTC Non life-threatening obstetric complications