Postpartum patients need better hypertension care, study says

Women who have hypertension during pregnancy are not receiving sufficient follow-up care from their primary care clinicians, despite their higher risk for developing long-term cardiovascular issues, research found. The cross-sectional data analysis, presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine 2026 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., included more than 3,300 women in the first five years following childbirth who had hypertension during or before pregnancy or no hypertension. During postpartum visits, clinicians should ask about pregnancy-related complications and document them in the health record. (MedScape article, 5/13/26)