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This study was designed to compare blood pressures of infants of women with hypertensive disorders during pregnancy and/or delivery and labor with blood pressures of infants whose mothers' were normotensive during gestation and delivery. The infants' blood pressure was measured with an Arteriosonde 1020 at 3 days of age. (Further analyses are in progress of examinations at 9, 18, and 24 months). One hundred and ninety infants qualified as cases and 201 as controls. Systolic blood pressures at age 3 days averaged 71 mmHg. Diastolic blood pressures averaged 46 mmHg. Infants' blood pressures were not related to mothers' race, age, or pay status; infants' sex or mode of feeding. Pressures were measured between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. and no diurnal variation was detected. There was a direct correlation between infants' pressure and birth weight and also with level of activity (asleep versus awake or agitated) at the time of measurement. Little, if any, relationship was seen between mothers' and infants' pressure.
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Mausner, J., Levison, S., Gabrielson, I. et al. BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT IN NEWBORN INFANTS OF TOXEMIC, HYPERTENSIVE, AND NORMAL MOTHERS. Pediatr Res 14, 1011 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198008000-00228
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