Racial Differences in Incidence of Pre‐eclampsia and Eclampsia in Fiji

Bell, Muriel E.; M.A., M.B. Lucy Wills

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1955.tb14845.x

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“…They may reflect a difference between the races in the incidence of conditions in earlier life which predispose to higher pressures. For instance, the commoner occurrence of toxa:mia of pregnancy (Bell and Wills, 1955) and ana:mia of pregnancy (Oldmeadow, 1956) in Indians as compared with Fijians may be relevant.…”

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The Casual Arterial Pressure of Fijians and Indians in Fiji

Lovell

Maddocks

Rogerson

1960

Australasian Annals of Medicine

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Summary Casual arterial blood pressure has been measured in population samples of Fijians and Indians inhabiting Fiji. Certain features of blood pressure found in peoples of Europe and America have been found in both races. The means and standard deviations of systolic pressures rise with age. The means of diastolic pressures rise, at least to the sixth decade. Pressures rise more in females than in males. Frequency distributions of pressures are continuous and mostly show positive skewness. Each race contains subjects with markedly raised pressures. The overall mean systolic and diastolic pressures of Fijians and Indians are similar, but pressures rise more with age in Indians than in Fijians. Differences between races in the younger groups are reduced when differences in arm circumference are taken into account. Correction for arm circumference increases the relatively higher pressures of elderly Indians. The levels of blood pressure of Fijians and Indians are compared in detail with those reported in a London population. The pressures of Fijians, Indians and Londoners are similar up to the sixth decade. Thereafter, those of Fijians and Indians fall below those of Londoners. This similarity of pressures up to the sixth decade in such contrasted races is emphasized, for ways in which the races differ have previously been held to account for differences in pressures between other races. The reasons for the differences in later years are discussed.

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The Casual Arterial Pressure of Fijians and Indians in Fiji

Lovell

Maddocks

Rogerson

1960

Australasian Annals of Medicine

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“…In the Fiji Islands, preeclampsia appears to be rare in the native Fijians, but frequent in the East Indian immigrants and their descendants. 6 In Trinidad, in the West Indies, the incidence of preeclampsia in East Indian women was 14.6% compared to 6.3% in Blacks. 7 Michael Davies and co-workers identified an inci-dence of preeclampsia/eclampsia in Muslim Arabs of 3.4%, in Jews born in Iraq of 3.3%, and in Jews from Israel of 1.6%.…”

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The Effect of Ethnicity on the Development of Small for Gestational Age Infants Associated with Hypertension in Pregnancy

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Baldwin²

1998

Amer J Perinatol

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The objective of this article is to assess in a hypertensive pregnant population the role of ethnic background on the development of small for gestational age (SGA) infants. A cohort population of 366 pregnant women who developed new hypertension in their pregnancy were interviewed and their ethnic groups defined. We then compared the outcomes of the pregnancies with regard to the development of SGA infants among the various ethnic groups. Preeclamptic women were more likely to deliver a SGA infant than gestational hypertensive women. Women of East Indian descent delivered the highest incidence of SGA infants when they developed preeclampsia (50%) compared to an incidence in the White population of 13.8%. Only the ethnocultural group, mean third-trimester blood pressure and third-trimester hematocrit, significantly correlated with the development of a SGA infant. Chinese and East Indian women who develop preeclampsia are at the highest risk of having a growth-restricted infant.

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ABO blood groups in obstetrics

Pearse

1957

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Racial Differences in Incidence of Pre‐eclampsia and Eclampsia in Fiji

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

The Casual Arterial Pressure of Fijians and Indians in Fiji

The Casual Arterial Pressure of Fijians and Indians in Fiji

The Effect of Ethnicity on the Development of Small for Gestational Age Infants Associated with Hypertension in Pregnancy

ABO blood groups in obstetrics

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