Arterial Stiffness and Non Dipping Blood Pressure Pattern Developing in Women Who had High Risk Pregnancies

Pregnant women who had passed through high risk pregnancies, manifested as Preeclampsia, giving birth to low weight babies, gestational diabetes mellitus and peripartum cardiomyopathy, are expected to be at high risk of developing subsequent future cardiovascular diseases and events. We need to know if the high risk pregnant women will establish an Arterial Stiffness status and lose their normal nocturnal dipping of blood pressure in the period following these pregnancies. This will confirm the damage created by the heavy burden - of the high risk pregnancies - manifestations and will allow cardiologists and primary health clinicians to put these women for life preventive measures. This type of study was done using the new ABPM monitoring technology to detect blood pressure, dipping-non dipping changes and Arterial stiffness.