Recently, there has been a research on younger women and their pregnancy, and it's found that they when it comes to stroke, younger women at more at risk than older women. They face double the risk of stroke than non pregnant women of the same age. According to some medical authors, the overall risk in younger women may seem small, but the risk seems to rise during and after pregnancy.

According to Medical News Today, around 795,000 people in the United States are affected by stroke each year which has caused more than 130,000 deaths. The factors that can make young mothers more prone to stroke risk are high blood pressure, gestational diabetes and increasing bleed after giving birth.though, there is no clear picture yet of why the risk seems to exist, but researchers say it might be "pre-eclampsia" a dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy.

Reports from HealthDay shows, one in five women under the age of 35 are prone to stroke. The time of increased stroke for childbearing age women is during their third trimester and postpartum period said study author Dr. Eliza Miller, a vascular neurology fellow with New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

Overall the researchers found that the stroke risk is doubled for younger expected mothers, and have assess stroke risk by age at pregnancy. By using the data from New York State Department of Health Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) inpatient database, the researchers were able to pinpoint that women in the age 12-55 in New York State were hospitalised in 2003-2012.

Researchers says that they cannot predict on who's having stroke, but the number is increasing in large numbers, and it putting the lives of many young expectant mothers at risk. There is a need for precaution for the young expectant mothers.

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