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Snoring during pregnancy is associated with high blood pressure

Snoring during pregnancy is associated with high blood pressure
A Hadth study warned that snoring, which begins during pregnancy may be an indicator of breathing problems increase the risk of high blood pressure, which causes serious complications of pregnancy affecting the health of the mother and fetus.
This study has shown that a mother who show symptoms of snoring during pregnancy increase their risk of high blood pressure associated with pregnancy or signs of pregnancy spasm twice more than the woman who does not suffer this health problem.
The ratio remained constant after the scientists took into account other influencing factors, such as maternal age, race and smoking habits and weight gain during pregnancy. It is known that high blood pressure during pregnancy is associated risks the birth of a premature baby or a small size.
Researchers have found that if this problem breathing during sleep increase the blood pressure of a pregnant woman, the nearly 19% of cases of high blood pressure during pregnancy and nearly 11% of pregnancy cramps, can be treated with therapy snoring problem.
"These results demonstrate the need for a comprehensive examination of the pregnant woman to identify women most susceptible to high blood pressure," study author made the remarks Louis O'Brien, assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
In a study published earlier this month proved that children born to mothers who suffer problem Albehr (repeat sleep apnea) are more likely to enter care units for infants at birth.
The current study indicates to the fact that any increase in weight during pregnancy puts Ms. face the risk of breathing problems during sleep, including snoring problem (Algtit). Past studies have linked the problem of snoring and problems of high blood pressure among the wider population.
In this study, the researchers analyzed data on more than 1,700 pregnant women at some point after the 28 th week of pregnancy, has been recorded whether they suffer the problem of breathing during sleep, including snoring.
It was found that 34% of women respondents suffer snoring problem repeated three to four times a week, and that 25% of them have the problem began with the start of pregnancy.
As it turns out that 10% of women who suffer from snoring since the start of pregnancy infected with high blood pressure versus 4.5% of those who do not suffer from snoring. The 13% of the women who started snoring problem with pregnancy suffered from signs of gestational cramping in compared with 8% of those who do not suffer from the problem of snoring.
"Any problem impeding the process of breathing or cause the stoppage briefly during sleep increase the activity of the nervous system, which results in high blood pressure." O'Brien explained.
The breathing problems during sleep associated with an increased incidence of infections in the body and which are believed to play a role in the occurrence of pregnancy cramps.

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