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  2. Hypertensive disease of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Chronic hypertension is a type of high blood pressure in a pregnant woman that is pre-existing before conception, diagnosed early in pregnancy, or persists significantly after the end of pregnancy. It affects about 5% of all pregnancies and can be a primary disorder of essential hypertension or secondary to another condition; it is not caused ...

  3. Gestational Hypertension - Wikipedia

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    Gestational hypertension or pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is the development of new hypertension in a pregnant woman after 20 weeks' gestation without the presence of protein in the urine or other signs of pre-eclampsia. [1] Gestational hypertension is defined as having a blood pressure greater than 140/90 on two occasions at least 6 ...

  4. Hypertensive emergency - Wikipedia

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    A hypertensive emergency is not based solely on an absolute level of blood pressure, but also on a patient's baseline blood pressure before the hypertensive crisis occurs. Individuals with a history of chronic hypertension may not tolerate a "normal" blood pressure, and can therefore present symptomatically with hypotension , including fatigue ...

  5. Complications of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Women who have high blood pressure and had complications in their pregnancy have three times the risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared to women with normal blood pressure who had no complications in pregnancy. Monitoring pregnant women's blood pressure can help prevent both complications and future cardiovascular diseases.

  6. What is Hypertension? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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    When a medical condition or medication causes high blood pressure, it’s known as secondary hypertension. ... Call 911 if your reading indicates a hypertensive crisis and you’re experiencing ...

  7. 8 Common Cardiovascular Diseases for Men & How to Prevent Them

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    The underlying cause often isn’t clear, but risk factors include: Down’s syndrome. Infections during pregnancy, such as rubella. Possibly taking certain medications during pregnancy, such as ...

  8. Eclampsia - Wikipedia

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    [1] [14] Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are one of the most common causes of death in pregnancy. [14] They resulted in 46,900 deaths in 2015. [6] Maternal mortality due to eclampsia occurs at a rate of approximately 0–1.8% of cases in high-income countries and up to 15% of cases in low- to middle- income countries. [15]

  9. Hypertensive crisis - Wikipedia

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    Other symptoms accompanying a hypertensive crisis may include visual deterioration due to retinopathy, breathlessness due to heart failure, or a general feeling of malaise due to kidney failure. [3] Most people with a hypertensive crisis are known to have elevated blood pressure, but additional triggers may have led to a sudden rise. [4]