Logistic regression model for determining risks factor for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy

Preeclampsia (PE), one of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), is the onset of hypertension accompanied with proteinuria that occurs after 20th week of gestation. It is a syndrome of worldwide distribution, that complicates up to 10% of pregnancies and remain as the major cause of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity [1, 13]. Multiple conditions have been associated with an increased risk for PE like maternal age, nulliparity, previous preeclampsia, obesity, hypertension, among others. In this study, a logistic regression model was performed in order to estimate main risk factors for PE and others HDP.