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2. Hypertensive disease of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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   Although many pregnant women with high blood pressure have healthy babies without serious problems, high blood pressure can be dangerous for both the mother and baby. Women with pre-existing, or chronic, high blood pressure are more likely to have certain complications during pregnancy than those with normal blood pressure.

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 encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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   Diagnostic methods for hypertensive encephalopathy include physical examination, blood pressure measurement, blood sampling, ECG, EEG, chest X-ray, urinalysis, arterial blood gas analysis, and imaging of the head (CAT scan and/or MRI). Since decreasing blood pressure is essential, anti-hypertensive medication is administered without awaiting ...

5. High Blood Pressure Headaches: What They Are and How to ... - AOL

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   High blood pressure crisis and headaches. If your blood pressure is 180/120 mm Hg or higher and you have chest pain, back pain, or vision changes, you may be having a hypertensive emergency ...

6. Pre-eclampsia - Wikipedia

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   Home blood pressure monitoring may increase the likelihood of measuring blood pressure during these recommended time periods. [103] In general, the treatment of postpartum preeclampsia is the same as during pregnancy, including using anti-hypertensive medications to lower blood pressure and magnesium sulfate to prevent eclampsia. The same blood ...

7. High Blood Pressure: Symptoms, Treatments, and Causes - AOL

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   If you’ve been told that you have high blood pressure, you’re not alone. Around 75 million Americans have high blood pressure (or hypertension), and almost half of them don’t have it well ...

8. US task force recommends expanding high blood pressure ... - AOL

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   Everyone who is pregnant should be screened for disorders such as gestational hypertension and preeclampsia with blood pressure monitoring throughout the pregnancy, the US Preventive Services Task ...

9. Eclampsia - Wikipedia

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   A systolic blood pressure (the top number) of greater than 140 mmHg and/or a diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) of greater than 90 mmHg is higher than the normal range. If the blood pressure is high on at least two separate occasions after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and the woman has signs of organ dysfunction (e.g. proteinuria ...