1. A study has been made of the effect of pregnancy on the level of the blood pressure in 86 pregnancies of 10 normotensive, 54 experimentally hypertensive, and 7 spontaneously hypertensive rats of Wistar strains. 2. No appearance of eclampsia-like syndrome or increased tendency of abortion or fetal death was observed in those pregnant rats with experimental or spontaneous hypertension. 3 . High blood pressure dropped moderately at late pregnancy in all kinds of experimental hypertension (renal infarction, renal ablation, adrenal regeneration, DCA and Post DCA, and salt hypertension) and in the spontaneous hypertension investigated in this study. The normotensive rats did not show any definite change during pregnancy. 4. In renal infarction and adrenal regeneration hypertension, the degree of blood pressure fall at late pregnancy in acute hypertensives was more marked than that in long continued hypertensives. 5. The degree of blood pressure fall correlated significantly with the litter weight or the number of young in rats with renal infarction hypertension.
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