Hypertension in pregnancy is getting more common for Gen Z women
Generational decline in heart health is largely to blame, researchers suggest
Gen Z’ers and millennials are about twice as likely to develop high blood pressure during pregnancy than women from the baby boomer generation were, a new study finds. This includes conditions such as pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension.
It is usually believed that the odds of developing high blood pressure during pregnancy rise with the age of the mother, but after taking age into account, researchers discovered that women born in and after 1981 were still at greater risk.
