Will My Chronic Hypertension Go Away After Pregnancy?
Will My Chronic Hypertension Go Away After Pregnancy?
Interventional cardiologist Saira Samani, MD, discusses how patients who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy are at a higher risk of developing heart disease in the future.
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2.88 -> Sometimes during pregnancy patients may,
women, may develop gestational hypertension,
8.88 -> or chronic hypertension, depending on the time
period during their pregnancy when they have the
13.52 -> symptoms and the diagnosis or even diabetes. Now,
once delivery is done if that resolves that's,
19.84 -> you know, a good thing, if it doesn't they
continue to seek treatment, hopefully.
23.12 -> But in scenarios where it resolves patients may
not seek any further treatment thinking it was
28.32 -> related to my pregnancy, and hence I don't have to
worry about it anymore. Whereas, the fact of the
33.6 -> matter is that because it happened during their
pregnancy they are at a higher risk of developing,
40.4 -> not only the hypertension diabetes, but
independent of developing diabetes they're
44.96 -> at a higher risk twofold higher risk of having
stroke. Fourfold higher risk of having heart
49.84 -> disease in the future, and I think I want to
underscore I know Dr. Qamruddin mentioned this
54.16 -> but I want to emphasize this is a very important
thing and I think it's something that, you know,
58.48 -> should not be overlooked because even though
the hypertension or the diabetes may resolve,
63.2 -> there is an underlying risk factor that this
subset of people is a different subset. They need
68.72 -> more care, they need more preventive cardiology
attention than the other sect of the population.
75.84 -> So just want to take the opportunity to
emphasize that for the screening test,
79.44 -> that this population especially
should definitely get it.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=403IyWLbyms