10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 9 Issue 2 2018 (April-June) Preeclampsia is a major public health problem in pregnant women. The objective of our study is to identify the risk factors for preeclampsia in pregnant women. Thereby, we conducted a prospective study in the maternity ward of the CHEIKH ZAYED Hospital Center in Nouakchott, during the period from 2015 to 2016.Otherwise,360 pregnant womenwere interviewed, of which 31% (n = 112) had complications of high blood pressure. In addition, 50 of these hypertensive women were preeclamptic, of whom46% aged between years 20 and 30, 52% are Black Moors, and 82% had no fixed occupation. Preeclamptic multi-gestures represented more than half of cases (62%), nearly half of cases 48% had a family antecedent and the majority (84%) had consulted persistently ( greaterThan 4).Nevertheless, the impact results were much more alarming, which called for adequate and effective intervention to deal with this scourge. MARIEM SIDI MOHAMED, SETTY SASS, AHMED ZEIN, AHMED LBARAE, ABDERRAZZAK KHADMAOUI, L. AICHA LRHORFI, KHALLAYOUN SOAD, RACHID BENGUEDDOUR Preeclampsia, pregnant woman, prospective study, prenatal consultation-number. 139-143