Gestational Hypertension: Follow-Up with Your Doctor Health Article

If you are diagnosed with gestational hypertension, it is important to have follow-up examinations to ensure that your high blood pressure resolves after delivery. Occasionally, a woman's blood pressure remains high for more than 12 weeks after delivery. If this is the case, your doctor may change your diagnosis of gestational hypertension to a diagnosis of chronic hypertension. Hypertension is often present, though undetected, before pregnancy.

If hypertension resolves after delivery, no special care is needed. Gestational hypertension does not cause long-term or adverse effects.