ANALYSIS OF HYPERTENSION AND ANEMIA AMONG WORKING PRIMIGRAVIDA WOMEN AS COMPARE TO NON-WORKING PRIMIGRAVIDA WOMEN AT THEIR ANTI-NATAL CHECKUP IN GYNAE OPD HAYATABAD MEDICAL COMPLEX PESHAWAR

ABSTRACT
Introduction: Pregnancy is one of the most important periods in a woman’s life and is accompanied with huge physiological
changes, which can be similar to a tsunami for the body. Many different factors can influence the process of
pregnancy and consequently the pregnancy outcome.
Aims and objectives: The basic aim of the study is to analyze that pregnancy induced hypertension and anemia are
more common in Non-working Primigravida group women as compare to working Primigravida women.
Methodology of the study: This was a randomized study conducted in Gynae and medical OPDs of a tertiary care
hospitals Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) and Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) Peshawar during May: 2018 to
August 2018. We collected the data from 112 voluntarians female patients who visits the OPD of both the above hospitals
for their anti-natal check up. We divided the data into two groups, each group of 56 women who were fulfilling our
inclusion criteria. One group of working Primigravida women while a second group of equal number (56) with same
parameters of our criteria, consisted of non-working Primigravida women. We collected all the basic characteristics and
the required parameters of selected patients of both groups. We recorded their Blood Pressure and full blood counts
for haemoglobin (Hb) in 3 consecutive anti-natal visits to OPDs.
Results: The data were collected from 112 patients with the mean age