Relationship between Blood Pressure and Diabetesin Pregnancy

Abstract

Introduction: Pregnancy is a critical period in which maternal health plays a vital role in the health of the baby; so underlying conditions, illness and disorders caused during pregnancy or external factors can endanger the health of the mother, the fetus or both. Methods: In this review article, the databases Medline, Cochrane, Science Direct, and Google Scholar were thoroughly searched to identify the studies Relationship between Blood Pressure and Diabetes in Pregnancy. Results: Pregnancy is probably a vital period for proper health measures and interventions aiming to reduce the spreadout of type 2 diabetes. The prevalence of pregnancy diabetes varies from 1-14% during pregnancy, which depends on the region and population studied, the difference in data collection methods, non-random selection of the mothers and diagnostic criteria applied. Discussion and conclusion: This competition, along with the reduction of beta cellular supply, sparks pregnancy diabetes. Thus, a stress test is applied to cause glucose intolerance and, in fact, genetic potentiality to diabetes type 2 is due to hormonal changes, which often occurs in the second half of pregnancy, in a way that insulin resistance increases progressively until delivery.