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 Pregnancy
and High Blood Pressure
January
20, 2010,
1:50 pm
By Alexis Perez Sanchez
asperez@enet.cu
Translation: Ernesto
Gutierrez Pino
High blood pressure in pregnancy is known as
preeclampsia, although some women denominate the
illness as toxemia.
The specialists of the health assert that is it
possible to establish the difference between
preeclampsia and an existent hypertension prior
pregnancy.
The first one appears after 20 weeks of
gestation and during the childbirth. It is also
accompanied by the loss of proteins via the
urine and increase of the volume (inflammation
of inferior members, face and hands).
On the contrary, when a woman suffers of chronic
hypertension, the increase of her blood pressure
is present previous to the pregnancy or before
the 20 weeks.
The most accepted theory considers that the
dysfunction is result of a defect in the
migration of the placenta that damages the
sanguine veins and ends up affecting the
exchange of blood between the mother and the
fetus, so the fetal growth also suffers.
Some of the factors of risks for the
preeclampsia are related with the first
childbirth or with those that are conceived
before the 20 years old and after 35 years old.
According to the specialists the multiple
pregnancy, the undernourished patients and the
overweight constitute factors of risk, although
it is more usual in women whose mothers or
sisters have suffered from that dysfunction.
Among the fundamental manifestations of the
preeclampsia are the increase of the blood
pressure, exaggerated increase of weight,
headache and stomachache, vomits, loss of
proteins via urine and the swelling of hands and
face, mainly.
Manifestations like these are the threshold of
what can be the beginning of a crisis of
incalculable consequences. That is why, the
precocious care of the pregnant women is very
important to develop healthy dietary habits.
They must rest from eight to 12 hours a day and
control their blood pressure everyday.
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