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Review
. 2020 Jun;10(1):010306.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.010306.

"What's in a name?": Exploring inconsistent and contradictory definitions and clinical guidelines for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy from published literature from Nigeria and Bangladesh

Karen Kirk  1 , Charlotte Warren  2
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Review

"What's in a name?": Exploring inconsistent and contradictory definitions and clinical guidelines for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy from published literature from Nigeria and Bangladesh

Karen Kirk et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Jun.
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Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.

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Photo: Healthcare provider measuring a pregnant woman’s blood pressure in Nigeria (from the collection of Karen Kirk, used with permission).
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