-Induce labor at 37 weeks and deliver.
-If there is ever
**Note according to the ACOG 2013 Guidelines, Gestational HTN and Preeclampsia without severe features are both managed and delivered at 37 weeks. It’s preeclampsia with severe features that require immediate delivery.
That means if you have someone at 39 weeks who develops HTN but no proteinuria or severe features –for which a diagnosis of gestational HTN is made, you deliver them right away because they are already over 37 weeks which is the recommended time for inducing patients with gestational HTN.
Further Reading
Ref: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy: Hypertension in
pregnancy. Report of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy.
Obstet Gynecol 2013;122(5):1122-1131.” ABFM