Study: Rise in blood pressure increases pregnancy risks

You either have preeclampsia or you don’t. You either have gestational diabetes or you don’t. You either have high blood pressure or you don’t. Right? When it comes to pregnancy complications, many of us are led to believe that these diagnoses — and their risks to our unborn babies — are cut and dry, that is we either have a pregnancy health problem or we don’t, and our babies are either at risk of a complication or they’re not. But at least when it comes to high blood pressure, being below the cutoff line of clinically high blood pressure doesn’t mean baby is necessarily safe.