THE CAUSES INDUCED HYPERTENSION IN PREGNANT WOMEN IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE SHAO, MORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, KWARA STATE

ABSTRACT Background: Hypertension is the common cardiovascular disease in black African and the major causes of morbidity and mortality among Nigerians. It rarely has symptoms before, one-third of the affected do not know they have the diseases, as such it is called *'the silent killer. Objective: to lay more emphasis on the causes of induced hypertension in pregnant women and condition such as irreversible damage organ and stroke, heart failure complication such as coronary heart diseases and others in general hospital. Ilorin, kwara state. Result of the research showed that fifty questionnaire's were admitted in the study were 50 adults filled and returned. The majority of the respondents were between the age ranges of 20-25 of questionnaire. Most of the respondents are *female*, and the result made us know that nupe speaking people are more than other tribe in community by in the community by ethnic origin with 70%. It was also deduced that about (78%) of the respondent are married while 80% of the respondents were not aware of induced hypertension in pregnant women. However, no specific causes have been identified for induced hypertension in pregnant women, though factors such as family history, high intake of salt, fatty meat and alcohol consumption could be regarded as both contributing and aggravating factors. Or otherwise associated with other problems, heart failure, hypercholesterolemia e.t.c. management in this case, requires treating the disease condition when no disease condition has been identified, management. could be achieved strict adherent antihypertensive medication. It is therefore recommended that health education on importance of routine medical checkup, potential complication and risk factors associated with hypertension be undertaken at every health facility proving primary care will enhance health seeking behavior in the population, do not neglect therapeutic life modification through difficult to achieved when choosing pharmacological agent take into account co-morbid and conti-indication especially postural hypertension.