Pregnant women with hypertension must take medications regularly to reduce the risk of preeclampsia or premature birth, a doctor has said.
The risk of preeclampsia or premature birth before week 35 of pregnancy can be lowered if women with chronic hypertension receive treatment and keep their blood pressure within a normal range, they said, citing a recent medical study.
The research which was led by the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the US National Institutes of Health and published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine studied 2,408 pregnant women who were diagnosed with chronic hypertension prior
The people who can be prescribed Paxlovid, an oral antiviral drug for treating COVID-19, now includes pregnant women, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞), deputy head of the CECC’s medical response division, said that pregnant women can now be given a Paxlovid prescription, although the prescribing doctor should thoroughly explain the potential benefits and risks of taking the drug during pregnancy, and obtain the woman’s consent before prescribing it.
A specialist meeting on Tuesday that included representatives from the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Taiwan Society of Perinatology