During pregnancy changes in your blood pressure could be a scary thing. While mild changes can be rectified with proper diet care and medication but if the reading are always high it could have consequences. Elevated blood pressure could be detrimental to both maternal and foetal health. When it comes to talking about blood pressure during pregnancy most people use the terms gestational hypertension and preeclampsia interchangeably. However in reality they are two different conditions. Here we are trying to define these two conditions that are associated with maternal high blood pressure and what it exactly means. What is gestational