A Common Pregnancy Blood Pressure Reading. A Risk Too Often Missed.
There is a number that sends women home from Labor and Delivery when they should be admitted or further evaluated. It looks reassuring. It feels fine. And it meets the clinical threshold for hypertension in pregnancy. That number is 90. A diastolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg, even with a perfect-looking systolic of 120, meets […]
Your Body Gave You a Warning During Pregnancy. Did Anyone Tell You?
She was 36. Healthy, she thought. Her first pregnancy ended with an emergency: preeclampsia, early delivery, and both survived. At her postpartum visit, her pressure was still elevated. Her doctor said: Follow up with primary care. She did not have a primary care doctor. She was 36. Nobody checked her cholesterol. Nobody connected her pregnancy […]
A New Drug for Preeclampsia Just Made Headlines. Do We Finally Have a Cure?
We have watched women seize. We have watched them bleed. We have delivered babies into silence. And we have done it all with blood pressure medications that quiet the storm but cannot stop what is driving it. That may be about to change. Maybe. DM199 is a lab-engineered copy of a protein your body […]