nterestingly, in this study signifi- cantly more women whose initial blood pressures were < 140/90 mmHg at enrollment had started antihypertensive therapy before pregnancy than those in the 140- 150/90-99 and 151-159/100-109 mmHg pre-enrollment blood pres- sure categories (72.6% vs 55.2% and 48.3%, respectively, P < 0.001). These findings led the authors to speculate that better control of blood pressure among pregnant patients with mild chronic hypertension could improve outcomes.