Preeclampsia and high blood pressure during pregnancy are early warning signs for heart disease later in life. These aren't personal failings but modifiable risk factors that need attention during and after pregnancy to prevent future cardiovascular problems.
What do we do in that scenario?
So we don't want to fall into a situation where we say, oh, it's your fault that you didn't do something right during pregnancy and this developed. But we do know that there are certain predisposing factors during pregnancy that lead to the development of these conditions of pregnancy— preeclampsia, hypertension of pregnancy. And if we don't address those risk factors, then they are the same things that will cause cardiovascular disease later in life, right? It's this early red flag warning sign, like something's not happy. In your body that we need to take another look at.
