Table 1.

Classification of hypertensive disorders in pregnant women2

Preeclampsia–eclampsia	New‐onset hypertension after 20 weeks' gestation in a previously normotensive woman + evidence of end‐organ damage (proteinuria, thrombocytopenia, hepatic or renal dysfunction, pulmonary edema or central nervous or visual disturbances)
Chronic hypertension	Hypertension diagnosed before pregnancy
Preeclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension	New‐onset end‐organ dysfunction in a woman with chronic hypertension
Gestational hypertension	New‐onset hypertension after 20 weeks' gestation without signs of end‐organ dysfunction