Preeclampsia and hestosis as predictors of future cerebrovascular diseases in pregnant women

Abstract

Group of hypertensive disorders among pregnant women is the most widespread hestosis and includes the following diseases: a gestational hypertension, a preeclampsia (PE) and an eclampsia. According to the term in Ukrainian MOH decree, PE is hypertension which arises after 20 weeks of pregnancy and includes proteinuria more than 0,3 g/l, also may include thrombocytopenia, renal insufficiency and pulmonary oedema. PE complicates 3-5% of first pregnancies and 5-10% of subsequent pregnancies. Several studies of later life of women underwent PE showed increasing of risk of arterial hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disorders, cognitive impairment, dementia and Alzheimer`s disease.