Induced labor for women with hypertension

August 5, 2009 Researchers in the Netherlands studied a group of pregnant women with gestational hypertension or mild preeclampsia.

Findings show women who had induced labor had a 29 percent lower risk for developing poor maternal outcome.

Also, women who had induced labor had fewer c-sections than those in the monitored group.

You can read this study in the Lancet journal.