Symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats are often those most associated with menopause. But a new study from Arizona State University found that elevated blood pressure could be a universal part of the menopause transition.
Madeline Getz is a Ph.D. student in Global Health at Arizona State University. She and other researchers looked at the relationship between menopause and blood pressure among women in the United States, where the average American lifestyle is more sedentary, and Tsimane women, an active forager-horticulturalist community in Bolivia
“We found that systolic blood pressure increased more rapidly with age after menopause, and women's diastolic blood pressure actually decreased more rapidly as they aged after menopause,” she said.
And since roughly half of the world’s population will experience menopause, Getz says more research is needed to support women’s health.
“And that's really important: not only to understand these increased risks of heart disease, but also just because menopause is critically understudied,” she says. “So if you Google — there are four times the number of scientific articles on coffee, then there are on menopause.”
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