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  2. Pre-eclampsia - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Pre-eclampsia increases the risk of undesirable as well as lethal outcomes for both the mother and the fetus including preterm labor. [11] [12] [3] If left untreated, it may result in seizures at which point it is known as eclampsia. [2] Risk factors for pre-eclampsia include obesity, prior hypertension, older age, and diabetes mellitus.

  3. Here's why preeclampsia remains one of the most worrisome ...

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    More commonly though, the condition is caught by prenatal checkups because it's such a common condition and because "all pregnant patients are at risk for developing preeclampsia," says Dr. Leslie ...

  4. Eclampsia - Wikipedia

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    Eclampsia, like pre-eclampsia, tends to occur more commonly in first pregnancies than subsequent pregnancies. [38] [39] [40] Women who have long term high blood pressure before becoming pregnant have a greater risk of pre-eclampsia. [38] [39] Patients who have gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia have an increased risk of eclampsia. [41]

  5. Complications of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Severe pre-eclampsia involves a BP over 160/110 (with additional signs). It affects 5–8% of pregnancies. [20] Eclampsia – seizures in a pre-eclamptic patient, affect around 1.4% of pregnancies. [21] Gestational hypertension can develop after 20 weeks but has no other symptoms, and later rights itself, but it can develop into pre-eclampsia. [22]

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    Her declining health, combined with the discovery of her pregnancy, led to doctors diagnosing her with preeclampsia, a dangerous pregnancy disorder. The condition involves high blood pressure ...

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    For example, getting your first period at age 10 or earlier increases your risk of cardiac events. Pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes can also be warning signs ...

  8. Hypertensive disease of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Preeclampsia does not in general increase a woman's risk for developing chronic hypertension or other heart-related problems. Women with normal blood pressure who develop preeclampsia after the 20th week of their first pregnancy, short-term complications, including increased blood pressure, usually go away within about six weeks after delivery.

  9. HELLP syndrome - Wikipedia

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    HELLP syndrome was identified as a distinct clinical entity (as opposed to severe pre-eclampsia) by Dr. Louis Weinstein in 1982. [31] In a 2005 article, Weinstein wrote that the unexplained postpartum death of a woman who had haemolysis, abnormal liver function, thrombocytopenia, and hypoglycemia motivated him to review the medical literature ...