Researchers at Rutgers Health, New Jersey [US], found that high blood pressure problems during pregnancy are significantly associated with fatal cardiovascular disease up to one year after birth. All hypertensive disorders that cause dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy – chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia. Preeclampsia with severe features, superimposed preeclampsia and eclampsia – except gestational diabetes, was associated with twice the risk of fatal heart disease compared with women with normal blood pressure. Eclampsia, a syndrome in which high blood pressure causes seizures. According to a study published in Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, there has been a nearly 58-fold increase in fatal heart disease, "Maternal and perinatal mortality rates in the US are higher than in other high-income countries and rising, but by half. There are more heart disease-related deaths that could be prevented," said lead author Rachel Lee, a data analyst at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School."This study provides information about how each hypertensive disorder relates to fatal heart disease, so healthcare providers can more closely monitor patients with such complications and develop strategies to maintain them postnatally. Researchers used a nationwide readmission database to examine pregnancy-related mortality among women ages 15 to 54 from 2010 to 2018. Data from more than 33 million delivery hospitalizations found 11 percent of patients had hypertensive disorders. are identified, but in a 2010 study that number rose to 9.4 percent of patients with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. By 2018, that figure had more than halved to 14.4 percent. "That's the case," said Cande, chief of the division of epidemiology and biostatistics in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Unfortunately, there has been a sharp increase, said Anant, senior author of the study."The number of patients developing chronic hypertension far exceeds the improved ability to treat it," he said. "The incidence of chronic hypertension in people of childbearing age is increasing rapidly, but optimal treatment strategies remain uncertain. " "Although we are treating more pregnant people with mild hypertension with antihypertensive medications, many questions remain about the correct definition of hypertension in pregnant compared with non-pregnant individuals. Pregnant people with hypertension disorders, especially those with pre-existing hypertension, need high-quality care as heart disease and related cardia symptoms may be confused with normal symptoms of normal pregnancy, the study authors said. Could. As delay in diagnosis is associated with increased incidence of preventable complications, early identification and optimal treatment of hypertensive disorders, especially preeclampsia, is important for primary prevention of eclampsia, maternal stroke.