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Published: January 14, 2026

Pregnancy-related high blood pressure varied among Asian, Pacific Islander subgroups

Pacific Islander and Filipino individuals were more than twice as likely as Chinese individuals to have a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, finds a new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association
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