Jenna Neikirk was nearing the end of her first pregnancy when her blood pressure shot up to dangerous levels.
"I started feeling splotchy and hot, just kind of uncomfortable, so I took my blood pressure at work and it was 160 over 120," she says. Neikirk's a physical therapist in Atlanta and knew that level was alarmingly high.
She left work and walked over to her obstetrician's office, which was in the same medical complex.
[For more on this story by ALISON KODJAK, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/h...s-for-pregnant-women]
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