Women's BP rises more rapidly through life than previously thought
Study challenges prevailing belief about gender differences in cardiac health
16th January 2020
By Kemal Atlay
Women experience steeper rises in blood pressure throughout life than men, a new study suggests, upending the notion that vascular disease processes in women lag behind men by 10-20 years.
The findings also suggest that such hypertensive changes could begin in early adulthood and dictate the development of cardiovascular disease in later life, researchers say.
Writing in JAMA Cardiology, a team led by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, US, analysed longitudinal blood pressure measurements from almost 33,000 participants (54% female), with