Misunderstanding FIGO Recommendations On Prediction of PIH
Misunderstanding Misunderstanding FIGO Recommendations On Prediction of PIH Introduction: In its September 2019 issue International Journal of Gynaecology Obstetrics, FIGO recommendations on prediction of preeclampsia got published 1 . Since then thousands must have read it. It must have been referred to in many articles published in many journals by now. I am sure it must be helping many pregnant subjects throughout the world. However, what has driven me to write on this is one happening recently. In February this year, I was invited as a guest faculty to a state conference in India. Looking at my interest, extensive work and my original publications on preeclampsia for decades now, a couple of beaming office-bearers of the host organization came to me. What they told me alarmed me instead of making me happy. They said; “Sir, following the FIGO recommendations on preeclampsia prediction, we have decided that in all pregnant subjects in our state we are