The article entitled “Body of Evidence in Favor of Adopting 130/80 mm Hg as New Blood Pressure Cut-Off for All the Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy” aims to develop new clinical guidelines for assessing the health state of pregnant women who run the risks of developing hypertension. The article suggests that adopting the 130/80 mm Hg as a new blood pressure cut-off would allow reducing the risks of maternal and infant mortality associated with higher blood pressure (Sisti & Williams, 2019). The article is clinically significant and has a practical application, as the use of new standards will allow for intervention at earlier stages to save lives and avert complications.
The evidence presented in the article might change my practice in the sense that I would be more attentive in measuring pregnant women’s blood pressure and making a decision on whether to intervene. I believe that I would be guided by new practices for medical intervention and adopt 130/80 mm Hg as a new blood pressure cut-off remembering the mortality risks. Based on the article, I would recommend changing the existing guidelines to a new standard of 130/80 mm Hg. Thus, the pressure of 130/80 would be a new cut-off for medical intervention. The other changes in my practice would include more frequent measuring of blood pressure in hypesthesia-prone pregnant women since the risk of missing a critical state is very high. I would also recommend my patients measure their blood pressure regularly and address me if it is above the new 130/80 mm Hg cut-off. I believe the given measures will help to reduce the maternal and infant mortality rates caused by hypertension in pregnant women.
Reference
Sisti, G., & Williams, B. (2019). Body of evidence in favor of adopting 130/80 mm Hg as new blood pressure cut-off for all the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.Medicina, 55(10), 703.