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November 08, 2009

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High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy

Blood pressure is checked at each prenatal visit in order to screen for developing problems. What happens if the blood pressure is rising? Learn about how pregnancy affects underlying hypertension, and what high blood pressure means to the pregnancy.


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