Arterial Stiffness and Non Dipping Blood Pressure Pattern Developing in Women Who had High Risk Pregnancies

The pregnancy is a physiological metabolic syndrome and women have to pass this stress test to continue a safe life journey, otherwise consequences of this failure will put harmful burden on cardiovascular system of these women. We have chosen the main critical high risk changes affecting pregnant women which are the preeclampsia, gestational Diabetes Mellitus, giving birth to low weight babies and developing peripartum cardiomyopathy and decided to follow them for a period of 5 years of post-partum. The research group managed to monitor the Arterial stiffness and Non dipping BP development in these women and comparing them with a normal control group of women who passed through similar pregnancies without having any complications. The research group have defined this particular high risk pregnancy as “the development of preeclampsia, gestational DM, peripartum cardiomyopathy and giving birth to low weight babies during the pregnancy period”, also the definition of preeclampsia was “ mild preeclampsia is the presence of hypertension of > = 140/90 mmHg on 2 occasions at least 6 hours apart, without evidence of end organ damage, in women who were normotensives before 20 weeks gestation. In women with preexisting essential hypertension, preeclampsia is diagnosed if SBP has increased by 30 mmHg or the DBP has increased by 15 mmHg.