CDC: Strokes, rise in pregnant women, new moms

Strokes have suffering to pregnant women and new mothers, probably spiked heel, because more of them are overweight and high blood pressure and heart disease, researchers from report in the United States.

Hospitalizations for pregnancy-related strokes and "Mini strokes" jumped from about 4,100 1994-95 to around 6,300 2006-07, an increase of 54% researchers said, extrapolation of numbers in a large database of the Federal Republic.

"This is a very, very trigger alarm statistics, we need to take that very seriously", said Dr. Olajide Williams, neurologist at Columbia University, and Harlem hospital and an American Stroke Association spokesman. "We need more aggressive in screening-are these women for these risk factors."

The number of strokes is small, when you consider that about 4 million babies are born each year in the United States but pregnancy raises risk of stroke due to the all a woman hormone and blood changes that occur. When it unhealthy, starts with a problem such as diabetes or high blood pressure, she doubled their risk of suffering a stroke during or directly after pregnancy, said Dr. Elena Kuklina, stroke prevention experts at the Centers for disease control and prevention.

They led the study, published Thursday in the journal of the American Heart Association stroke.

Researchers records used from a sample of hospitals in almost all countries, for up to 8 million hospitalizations each year. She saw the number of women, the strokes and transient ischaemic attacks - TIAs or 'Mini strokes' - during pregnancy or in the three months after the birth.

Prices were highest in the South and lowest in the Northeast.

Researchers also saw the prevalence of high blood pressure and heart disease, health problems associated with obesity, and came to the conclusion that this almost all the increase in stroke-related hospitalizations taken into account. Researchers also noted that women later children have, and the risk of a stroke increases with age.

Sometimes pregnant women and new moms so focused on the baby health, the neglect they consider their own, said Williams.

"Think special rooms, which are going to color it to paint rooms on baby names." You have maternity think, "said Williams." "But an ounce of prevention is always the best recipe for a healthy life."

Kuklina agreed.

"If you are planning a pregnancy, try to see your doctor before you pregnant" advised them to stroke risks are examined. And if you are pregnant, "try as early as possible to start your prenatal care." "It is important, healthy living, have healthy diets, smoking quit, if you smoke, are, increase your physical activity and further maintain your healthy weight before pregnancy and during pregnancy."

CDC reported this year researchers with same data sets hospitalization that strokes increase dramatically in young and middle age while fall into Americans in older people, a sign that the obesity epidemic, to shift the age burden of the disease cannot be started.

Getting help fast, as soon as symptoms occur, is to prevent key to the long-term detriment. The warning signs of a stroke are sudden, this: numbness or weakness on one side, severe headache without known cause, to talk about walking, confusion and trouble or to see.

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