Abstract

Background: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are a major health burden in the obstetric population as it is one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. World Health Organization estimates that, at least one woman dies every 7 min from complications of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Objective: To assess prevalence of pregnancy induced hypertension and bad birth outcome of pregnancy induced hypertension among women attending delivery service at Mizan Tepi university teaching hospital, Tepi and Gebretsadik shawo hospitals, south west Ethiopia. Methods: Health facility based cross-sectional study design was carried out from October 01 to November 30, 2016. The total sample size (422) was proportionally allocated to the three hospitals. Then the study participants were systematically selected from each facility. Prior to analysis, data was entered using Epi data and cleaned and exported in to SPSS version 20.00 and descriptive statistics was computed. Results: The prevalence of pregnancy induced hypertension among women admitted for delivery in the three hospitals were 33 (7.9%), of which 5 (15.2%) were gestational hypertension, 12 (36.4%) were mild preeclampsia, 15 (45.5%) were severe preeclampsia and 3% were eclampsia. Out of the 33 cases, the birth outcome indicates 8 (24.2%) were low birth weight and only 2 (6.1%) were very low birth weight neonates, 3 (9.1%) were stillbirths, 6 (1.4%) had birth asphyxia, 17 (51.5%) were preterm delivery and 7 (21.2%) infants were admitted in neonatal intensive care unit, while 3 (9.1%) were neonatal deaths. Conclusion: The prevalence of pregnancy induced hypertension among women attending delivery service were 7.9%. Bad birth outcome of pregnancy induced hypertension, 24.2% were low birth weight and only 6.1% were very low birth weight neonates and 9.1% were stillbirths.

Keywords: Pregnancy induced hypertension; Delivered women; Bad birth outcome