Pregnancy: Heart Diseases

(asked on 24th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the NHS provides advice to pregnant women on the prevention of heart disease.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 1st February 2017

NHS Choices provides advice for new mothers on keeping fit and healthy with a baby, including exercise, healthy eating and weight loss. Details of that advice can be found here:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/keeping-fit-and-healthy.aspx

Advice from NHS Choices is also made available to expectant and new parents through Start4Life.

The NHS Choices website has general information on weight loss including a free NHS Weight Loss guide, and extensive information on preventing heart disease including a section on ‘How to look after your heart’ available here:

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Healthyhearts/Pages/Lifestylechanges.aspx

NHS Choices also includes detailed advice on congenital heart disease during pregnancy and what the mother-to-be should do to safeguard her own health and that of her child available at:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/congenital-heart-disease-pregnant.aspx

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