DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i10.056

Pages: 4094-4097

Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is a form of high blood pressure in pregnancy. It occurs in about 7 to 10 percent of all pregnancies, another type of high blood pressure is chronic hypertension - high blood pressure that is present before pregnancy begins. The objective to study The effects of pregnancy induced hypertension on PT and APTT among Sudanese Pregnant women .One hundred (100) pregnant women have PIH included in this study and 55 pregnant women with normal pregnancy as control, coagulation parameters include (PT, APTT). In PIH women the mean age was (30.9±4.7years), the mean of PT in case group was (15.4 ±3.1seconds) and APTT was (34.4± 5.7seconds).