High blood pressure develops differently in women and men and has different implications for the risk of organ damage and heart disease
Professor Eva Gerdts has together with international experts published an overview of current knowledge on sex differences in arterial hypertension.
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Professor Eva Gerdts has together with international experts published an overview of current knowledge on sex differences in arterial hypertension. Several of the international collaborators at Center for Research on Cardiac Disease in Women have contributed. The paper gives an overview of the different blood pressure development in women and men through the life course, underlying mechanisms, and how this influences other cardiovascular risk factors, why women develop different variants of common types of heart disease and what we know about sex differences in the effect of blood pressure reducing drugs.