Gestational hypertension: Introduction
Any type of high blood pressure occuring during pregnancy
is a type of "gestational hypertension".
Preeclampsia is severe high blood pressure during pregnancy,
and eclampsia is very severe pregnancy gestational hypertension leading to seizures. ...more »
Symptoms of Gestational hypertension
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Treatments for Gestational hypertension
- Normal delivery - some babies are born vaginally; in other cases caesarian is chosen.
- Close monitoring of mother and foetus
- Antihypertensive medication
- Timely delivery of the baby - may need early delivery in order to control mothers' blood pressure
- more treatments...»
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Gestational hypertension?
Gestational hypertension: Deaths
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Gestational hypertension: Complications
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Causes of Gestational hypertension
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Disease Topics Related To Gestational hypertension
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Gestational hypertension: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Misdiagnosis and Gestational hypertension
Metabolic syndrome often undiagnosed: Metabolic syndrome, also known as Syndrome X, is
an often overlooked medical condition that causes a cluster of chronic symptoms.
There are often four symptoms and conditions combined: obesity, ...read more »
Heart attacks can be undiagnosed: Although the most severe symptoms of heart attack are hard to miss,
there are varying degrees of severity.
It is altogether too common for people to die from undiagnosed heart attack, or from delaying...read more »
Heart attacks can be overdiagnosed: Although many people die from heart attacks, there are also
many cases where people fear that they have a heart attack, but actually have something milder....read more »
Rare heart condition often undiagnosed: The rare heart condition called long QT syndrome can lead to episodes of palpitations
and rapid heartbeat.
In...read more »
Heart attack can be over-diagnosed: Although heart attack is often undiagnosed,
leading to fatality, it can also be over-diagnosed.
People become concerned that a condition is a heart attack,
whereas there are...read more »
Rare type of breast cancer without a lump: There is a less common form
of breast cancer called inflammatory breast cancer.
Its symptoms can be an inflammation of the breast...read more »
Blood pressure cuffs misdiagnose hypertension in children: One known misdiagnosis issue
with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple...read more »
Over-diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in obese patients: A diagnosis
of pulmonary hypertension, particularly pulmonary arterial...read more »
Obesity-related conditions undiagnosed in children: A variety of conditions
are associated with obesity (see obesity), but these tend to be undiagnosed more often
in...read more »
Hypertension misdiagnosis common in children: Hypertension is often
misdiagnosed in adults (see misdiagnosis of hypertension), but its misdiagnosis is even more likely in children.
Some of the symptoms of hypertension...read more »
Undiagnosed celiac disease in pregnancy harms fetus: The failure
to diagnose the common but less known digestive disease celiac disease (see symptoms of celiac disease)
is linked...read more »
Misdiagnosed weight-related causes of infertility: A woman's weight status
can affect her level of fertility.
Although obesity or overweight can in themselves reduce fertility,...read more »
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Gestational hypertension: Research Doctors & Specialists
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Gestational hypertension: Rare Types
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Prevention of Gestational hypertension
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Article Excerpts about Gestational hypertension
Gestational hypertension is defined as a blood pressure
elevation detected for the first time after midpregnancy, and is distinguished
from preeclampsia by the absence of proteinuria. (Source: excerpt from REPORT of the WORKING GROUP on RESEARCH on HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY: NHLBI)
Definitions of Gestational hypertension:
A condition in pregnant women with elevated systolic (>140 mm Hg) and diastolic (>90 mm Hg) blood pressure on at least two occasions 6 h apart. HYPERTENSION complicates 8-10% of all pregnancies, generally after 20 weeks of gestation. Gestational hypertension can be divided into several broad categories according to the complexity and associated symptoms, such as EDEMA; PROTEINURIA; SEIZURES; abnormalities in BLOOD COAGULATION and liver functions.
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