St George Hospital kickstarts recruitment drive for world-first study of its kind into hypertension in pregnancy

By Eva Kolimar
Updated February 22 2019 - 10:55am, first published February 21 2019 - 10:30am
Innovative study: Cronulla mum Kelly Griffith with her baby Isabella, and St George Hospital's nurse unit manager of the special care nursery, Kate Ossman. Isabella was born six weeks premature. Mrs Griffith, who had pre-eclampsia, is participating in a study that observes how hypertension during pregnancy affects health outcomes.
Innovative study: Cronulla mum Kelly Griffith with her baby Isabella, and St George Hospital's nurse unit manager of the special care nursery, Kate Ossman. Isabella was born six weeks premature. Mrs Griffith, who had pre-eclampsia, is participating in a study that observes how hypertension during pregnancy affects health outcomes.

A world-first study launched at St George Hospital has begun recruiting women for major research that examines how high blood pressure, or hypertension in pregnancy, affects a woman after giving birth.

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