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pregnancy and diabetes type 2 and hypertension

It's an interesting article. I suspect it wouldn't be simple cause and effect. Even if there is a link
 
Hi, I am no expert, but I think that often the same people who are prone to hypertension during pregnancy, are alos prone to diabetes...and one is not the cause of the other. Doesn't help much though I know. I am T1, and in my first pregnancy had hypertension, and pre eclamsia, and was told all teh time that diabetics are prone to it. It does seem that some of us are just unlucky that way.Interesting though!
 
I have a distant relative who one year older than me who developed diabetes type 2 and she told me she lost two babies due to hypertension in the 1970s so I do think there is a link. It would just be useful to know so that a woman who has problems with hypertension in pregnancy can be aware that she might develope diabetes in the future. Even when I was dx and treated with tablets for hypertension I didn't realize I could develope diabetes type 2 later on and not knowing anyone with type 2 diabetes until I was dx I knew very little about the condition.
 
Just to add I began having hypertension again in my forties and had to start taking tablets for it in my 50s. Being type 1 and having had hypertension when carrying your babies I think you are probably likely to develope hypertension when you are older so as you say just the luck of having type 1. I don't know if it can be avoided but most things that are good for diabetes is also good for hypertension, like a healthy diet and exercise. I find getting stressed raises my bp most of all.
 
"The only reliable treatment for preeclampsia is delivery of the baby," said senior author Michael J. Paidas, M.D., associate professor and director of the Program for Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Women's Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale. "But while delivery may 'cure' preeclampsia in the moment, these mothers are at high risk of chronic hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus and blood clots for the rest of their lives."

Paidas said the research adds to growing data on the link between hypertensive pregnancy disorders and subsequent death and ischemic heart disease. Paidas and the research team are conducting ongoing studies to explore the genetic links between pregnancy complications, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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This is my mother's story. I was the first born and I was 2lb 3oz at 32 weeks gestation. She had high blood pressure during and between each of the next three pregnancies and died at 46 yrs from a heart attack.
 
Katharine said:
This is my mother's story. I was the first born and I was 2lb 3oz at 32 weeks gestation. She had high blood pressure during and between each of the next three pregnancies and died at 46 yrs from a heart attack.
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That's tragic! :(

My mother had a succession of miscarriages stillbirths and premies before I came along (also premature) I don't know what her BP status was at the time but I know she's had it now for 40 or more years and still going strong, well as strong as any other 93 year old
 
There is a great deal we still don't understand about the effects pregnancy has on the mother and the effect the foetal environment has on the next generation.

I hope that the internet can make new discoveries more accessable to us all.

A very worrying thing for me is that sudden cardiac death in the 35 plus age group is becoming commonplace, even when no smoking is involved.
 
Kathleen that was tragic for you all. You and your siblings could not have been very old when your mother died. I didn't know my maternal mother because she died aged 40 from heart disease. I don't know if she had high blood pressure when she was carrying. My mother was only 14 yo then. I do know she was the second child and was a blue baby because of incompatible blood group between her and her mother. My mother didn't have high blood pressure when she carried me, or my sister, and has only recently developed high blood pressure because she has started having kidney problems. My father has been taking tablets for blood pressure for years. He is taking a lot of prednisone for emphysema and this pushes up his bg levels but his bg levels go back to normal when he stops the prednisone. His brother and sister also have been treated for years for blood pressure so I am not sure whether I inherited this from the paternal, or maternal side of the family. My sister didn't have high blood pressure when she was carrying her son. I am the only one in the family with diabetes 2 and there is no one with diabetes type 1 in the family. I didn't smoke while carrying my sons and I haven't smoked for about 30 years. Fortunately it was noticed that my blood pressure was going high at times first of all when my bp was taken for routine screening for cervical cancer so I was being monitored for it for about 10 years before it went up and stayed up.
 
Katharine said:
A very worrying thing for me is that sudden cardiac death in the 35 plus age group is becoming commonplace, even when no smoking is involved.
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Yes that happened to a friend.

In retrospect there was a strong familial incidence, his grandfather had heart problems all his life and later kidney failure, and died in his seventies. Typical apple shape with the pregnant basketball stomach but immensely strong and well muscled.

The grandson was strong and athletic up until a freak accident smashed up his leg which was then set crooked. He did the sudden weight gain which now seems indicative of insulin resistance, then dropped dead at 34 or 36.

Which has left his father a tad nervous, he's in his sixties now :(
 
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