Pre-eclampsia is one of those pregnancy-related health conditions that
is cured by delivering the baby. All the dangers -- the skyrocketing
blood pressure, the risk of seizures or stroke -- melt away once the
cord is cut and the infant is out on its own. So even though it's a
very serious, not uncommon malady (occuring in 5% of pregnancies), the
doctors who treat a woman once she's past the baby-having phase
typically don't pay much attention to it, or even understand it well.
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