Beyond the bump: How managing blood pressure around pregnancy shapes your future health.
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Dr Jamie Kitt, Dr Winok LapidaireUniversity of Oxford, Radcliffe Department of Medicine
- Host
- Medical Sciences (Division)
- Location
- Online
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
This talk will explore how pregnancy is a window into future health, giving an opportunity to improve long-term care and help prevent future cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline in women. Many women experience high blood pressure during pregnancy, and it is increasingly recognised as an early warning sign for health problems later in life. Conditions such as gestational hypertension and preeclampsia are known to increase a woman's longer-term risk of stroke, heart disease and dementia. Yet most women receive little follow-up once their baby is born. Recent studies by University of Oxford researchers have shown that, by monitoring and carefully managing their blood pressure after giving birth, new mothers could cut their risk of future heart disease and strokes – and protect their long-term brain health. The talks will also show how understanding why some women develop long-term complications while others recover fully could lead to more personalised treatment.
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