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It was 2019, and Megan O’Grady was 32 weeks pregnant with her first child. She took her dogs for a walk, just as she usually did. But that day, she was surprised by how tired she was. Then her chest started to hurt. Later, sitting in a restaurant with her husband, she felt miserable. She…

The rate of high blood pressure among women who gave birth shot up 73 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control. In fact, more than 1 in 10 women who gave birth in 2024 were plagued with some form of hypertension (including preeclampsia), up from a…