Low IQ

High blood pressure in mothers while they are pregnant can lead to negative effects in her child's thinking skills which may carry through until they are much older. High blood pressure and related conditions such as preeclampsia complicate about 10 percent of all pregnancies and can affect a baby's environment in the womb. The study suggests that even declines in thinking abilities in old age could have originated during the prenatal period when the majority of the development of brain structure and function occurs. During the study, medical histories of 398 men's mothers' blood pressure were analyzed. All of the men were born to the women between the years 1934 and 1944. At the age of 20, the men had their thinking skills examined, and once again when they were around the age of 69. They examined the men’s math reasoning, visual and spatial relationships, and language skills. According to the report, the men whose moms had high blood pressure when they were pregnant received scores that were 4.36 points less on thinking ability tests when they were 69 years than those whose mothers did not have high blood pressure. The men whose mothers had high blood pressure also scored lower when they were 20 years old, and had a greater decline in their scores over the years than the individuals whose mothers had not been hypertensive. The experts looked into whether premature birth at all influenced these results and determined that it did not. The babies' fathers professions - anywhere from a manual laborer to an office worker - also did not alter the findings.

 

So this study has come to the conclusion that women who are pregnant with high blood pressure have a higher tendency to give birth the boys with lower learning capabilities.  The men have lower scores in math, language, and visual skills. All I know is since learning this, I will hopefully not want to have high blood pressure or preeclampsia is future pregnancies.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/251151.php