What are Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDPs)?

"Hypertension in pregnancy is the condition for which we are always worried about. This can be before pregnancy also or during pregnancy the first time hyper-attension appears. So if blood pressure was present before the pregnancy we have to treat the blood pressure properly and buy the medicines which are not harmful to the baby. If blood pressure increases after pregnancy that is known as pregnancy-induced hypertension or PRH. In this case, we have to treat the mother for blood pressure and the complications caused by this blood pressure to the baby and mother we have to keep an observation. So this blood pressure during pregnancy may become severe in the form of preeclampsia in which the protein appears in the mother's urine or it may end up in eclampsia which means when the mother has convulsions with high blood pressure in pregnancy. The other form of pregnancy-induced hypertension which is a severe form of PIH is HELLP syndrome in which liver abnormalities appear along with the decreased count of platelets. It's a severe condition of the mother and the next type of severe hypertensive disorder of pregnancy is HUS in which mainly the kidney is affected and this is again a severe condition ending in high morbidity and mortality to the mother and baby"