Table 2.

Summary statistics of the prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

	Prevalence [95% confidence interval]	Number of studies	Number of participants	I2	P value of heterogeneity	P value of Egger’s test
Overall HDP	8 [5, 10]	32	478,570	99.8	<0.0001	0.27
Chronic hypertension	0.9 [0.4, 1.8]	13	103,607	99.1	<0.0001	0.10
Gestational hypertension	4.1 [2.4, 7]	20	73,421	99.4	<0.0001	0.33
Preeclampsia	4.1 [3.2, 5.1]	33	271,630	99.2	<0.0001	0.11
Eclampsia	1.5 [1, 2]	36	311,063	99.0	<0.001	0.035

I²: heterogeneity; HDP: hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.