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High Blood Pressure |
Eclamsia06/26/2006 |
my blood pressure raised 3 days before i gave birth on may 29, 2005, but until today, im still suffering from it. im taking a medicine for maintenance, what could this be? will i not recover anymore? thank you
In most cases, high blood pressure that begins around delivery, takes up to six months to normalize. This is called transient or gestational hypertension and is a benign condition. There are some data that women who have gestational hypertension have a higher risk of becoming hypertensive later in life. We recommend that a woman with gestational hypertension have a blood pressure check every year after the blood pressure has come back down to normal.
Hypertension is common and can sometimes start during pregnancy. In that case, the blood pressure does not come back to normal. In your case, your delivery was over a year ago. It is therefore quite possible that the onset of your high blood pressure was not related to the pregnancy, and you have to treat it as a long term condition.
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Max C. Reif, MD Director, Hypertension Section Division of Nephrology & Hypertension Department of Internal Medicine College of Medicine University of Cincinnati |
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