“…Several studies have examined the use of MAP in the first and second trimesters as a screening test for subsequent development of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and the findings of all such studies are summarized in table 8[14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34]. The studies reported widely contradictory results in the performance of screening, with DR of 8-93% [18,21] and FPRs of 2-55% [27,29], as a consequence of the varied methods in selection of the screened population, measurement of BP, cut-offs used in defining the screen-positive group and definitions of PE.…”