A video training course was launched in Guiyang, Guizhou province on Tuesday focusing on strengthening hypertension prevention and treatment strategies for reproductive-age women across the province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Sept. 29, 2024 -- A video training course was launched in Guiyang, Guizhou province on Tuesday focusing on strengthening hypertension prevention and treatment strategies for reproductive-age women across the province.

Organized by the Guizhou Provincial Health Commission and hosted by the Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Guizhou Province in collaboration with the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, the training aims to improve blood pressure monitoring and healthcare practices for this community.

The training, conducted via a remote medical video conferencing system at the hospital, addressed the screening and treatment of hypertension-related risks during pregnancy and controlling hypertension to a maximum for mitigating the condition.

The training program covered topics such as "standardized health management for reproductive-age women", "fetal health monitoring" and "epidemiology and prevention of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy". Discussions also delved into common hypertension-related diseases, as well as the diagnosis and prevention of cardiovascular diseases among the population.

"This training is one of the important tasks for us to establish a diagnosis and treatment system for hypertension in pre-pregnancy women throughout the province," said Yu Zhenqiu, director of the Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Guizhou Province and director of the hypertension department of the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University.

He added that the training aims to build a team for the prevention and treatment of hypertension in pre-pregnancy women that integrates "screening, diagnosis, exploration and management".

"lt will help create a new maternal and child health model that emphasizes 'desiring pregnancy leads to conception, necessary births, fetal health and maternal safety'," Yu said.

The event marks an essential move toward establishing a team specialized in hypertension prevention for reproductive-age women, demonstrating a holistic mastery of screening, diagnosis, exploration and management. Adhering to the principles of timely treatment, effective prevention, explosive research and responsible management, the training program attempts to discover a new model of maternal and child health that highly values the safety of pregnancy and the health of infants.

Guo Yanqi contributed to the story.