Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
Volume 31, Issue 12, Pages 1247-1254Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpy148
Keywords
blood pressure; gender differences; hypertension; immune system; inflammation; renin-angiotensin system; sex differences; T-cells; T-regulatory cells
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health
- American Heart Association
- [R0 HL127091]
- [P01HL134604]
- [17EIA33410565]
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While it has been known since the 1940s that men have greater increases in blood pressure (BP) compared with women, there have been intense efforts more recently to increase awareness that women are also at risk for developing hypertension and that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading causes of death among both men and women in the United States. With the release of the 2017 Hypertension Clinical Guidelines, 46% of adults in the United States are now classified as hypertensive, and hypertension is the primary modifiable risk factor for the development of CVD. This increase in the prevalence of hypertension is reflected in an increase in prevalence among both men and women across all demographics, although there were greater increases in the prevalence of hypertension among men compared with women. As a result, the well-established gender difference in the prevalence of hypertension is even more pronounced and now extends into the sixth decade of life. The goals of this review are to (i) review the historical clinical trial data and hypertension guidelines from the perspective of both genders and then (ii) review the role of the renin-angiotensin system and T-cell activation in contributing to sex differences in BP control.
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