>> helping you live healthy. A new study shows high blood pressure in pregnant women has
increased by 6% each year for
several years. Researchers
studied CDC records on more
than a 150 million women
between the ages of 1549 who
gave birth in hospitals in that
past 4 decades. And the
study suggest that this
increase in high blood pressure
could be connected to the rise
in women waiting to have
children. Joining me now to
discuss this new report is
doctor Shari khaliq or she is
in
a ascension Saint Vincent’s
primary care physician, good
morning doctor. Thank you for
the year, thank you and
congratulations to
you I know you’re to understand
exactly what the risks are
associated with high blood
pressure when it comes to
pregnancy. But it’s interesting
because your primary care
physician, you’re actually
seeing this trend in high blood
pressure among women even
before they get pregnant
absolutely um you know just as
we were
discussing before.
>> Pregnant people are people
too and the trend of obesity
and chronic
heart disease has trended
upwards over the last couple
years to so we can only expect
it to see in our pregnant women
as well. That’s why it’s so important to make sure they you are evaluated at least once a
year to kind of a baseline of
your health so that when you do
become pregnant if that is your
choice that year.
You kind of have an idea of
what’s going on with your body
before everything started
changing get crazy, but it has
while while high blood pressure
can be manage when you’re not
pregnant certainly with
medication, you know the
reality is is that having a
little baby growing inside of
you can complicate things if
you have lived but high blood
pressure on as a pregnant
woman, let’s talk a little bit
about the dangers to the woman
and then we’ll talk a little
bit about the dangers to the
fetus.
>> When when a woman has hybrid
for blood pressure is expecting
okay.
>> in women we can expect to
again pretty much the same
things that we will see a non
pregnant heart
attacks strokes even death the
big thing that we worry about
as preeclampsia. Which is high
blood pressure with an organ
that can lead
to seizures which can be very
for you and the baby.
As far as the fetus is
concerned it can us that you
know growth so that’s
definitely not something they
want you don’t want your child
to start off.
Lacking nutrition because
you’re not getting enough blood
to the
feed is. Can also cause preterm
preterm delivery even in defeat
is.
>> The most that’s pretty much
that’s
certainly because you want to
do the best that you can for
your baby and the reality is
you have to be healthy in order
to to provide you know the best
environment for your child on
that said is there something
that you are seeing and we
mentioned that women are
waiting later and maybe their
blood pressure is gone
uncontrolled and it hired it
before they
have children or is this just
simply a you know eating too
much salt is on and there are
certain factors here that’s
causing high blood pressure um
I think it’s a combination of
both as you know when we get
older our bodies just don’t.
>> Respond to things the same
as they used to when we were
younger so just getting older
increases your risk for those
those complications. And then.
>> The.
>> The. >> Explosion of processed food and fast food restaurant hinges
access to those things or lack
of access. To healthy foods has
really contributed to
and the increase of
hypertension that we’ve been
seeing with the pregnant was so
are there a lot of women who
have high blood pressure maybe
it’s genetic in a way and they
become pregnant.
>> Are they are they’re safe
medications that they can take
then during their pregnancy
that won’t impact the baby yes,
absolutely If you are if you’re
on blood pressure medication
before you get pregnant,
you want to make sure that your
again seeing even grow be doing
in our your primary here
because some of those
medications you cannot take
while you’re pregnant um so you
want to make sure they you talk
to your physician let
them know.
>> Maybe you’re not necessarily
planning, but it could
have been those are things that
you want to be aware of and it
is important to have that
conversation anyway, so that
you’re taking good care of your
life or you have the bays that