![]() ![]() Systolic blood pressure. This is the upper (first) number in your reading.Your blood pressure reading is given as two numbers: How do you know if you have high blood pressure? Managing your blood pressure can help you have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. ![]() If you have high blood pressure, talk to your health care provider. About 8 in 100 women (8 percent) have some kind of high blood pressure during pregnancy. Others have high blood pressure for the first time during pregnancy. Some women have high blood pressure before they get pregnant. ![]() This can lead to heart attack, heart failure, stroke and kidney failure. High blood pressure can put extra stress on your organs. If the pressure in your arteries becomes too high, you have high blood pressure (also called hypertension). Each time your heart beats, it pumps blood to the arteries. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from your heart to other parts of the body. Blood pressure is the force of blood that pushes against the walls of your arteries. ![]()
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