One of the health risks at any stage of life is having high blood pressure, but this is especially delicate for the pregnant woman. Therefore it is important to control the tension in pregnancy. Let's see what they are hypertensive states of pregnancy, since there are different degrees and severity of them.
Hypertensive disorders are quite common in pregnant women. (They affect approximately 10% of these), although most cases are usually mild. Here we see from a chronic hypertension to eclampsia, which is the most severe form of hypertension.
Pregestational Chronic Hypertension, which is detected before pregnancy or before 20 weeks of gestation. They are women who have high blood pressure before becoming pregnant. It is important in this regard a preconception visit to control this aspect.
Preeclampsia, an increase in blood pressure that usually occurs around 20 weeks of gestation and disappears after delivery.
Gestational hypertension is known when preeclampsia disappears after three months postpartum.
Superimposed preeclampsia: chronic arterial hypertension to which preeclampsia is added.
Eclampsia: It is the most serious state of preeclampsia. It happens in about 1 in 2000 to 3000 pregnancies. Seizures and / or coma occur in a woman with preeclampsia.
Remember that if the blood pressure is high, the resistance in the blood vessels increases, which can pose a risk by impairing blood flow in many of the organs of the pregnant mother (liver, kidneys, brain, uterus and placenta ...).
Generally, the diagnosis is based on blood pressure levels and other symptoms can also help establish the diagnosis of gestational hypertension (urine tests, evaluation of edema, periodic weight control, liver and kidney function tests ...
For control hypertensive states in pregnancy You have to do gynecological follow-up and get medical attention throughout the pregnancy. Among other tests, blood pressure is taken and everything is important to prevent complications and detect hypertension problems in time that could put the health of the mother and the baby at risk.
