Women's blood vessels age faster

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1. Women's blood vessels aging earlier than men? Blood vessels in the human body are divided into three different types: arteries, veins, and capillaries, each of which performs a specific function.
In addition to the main function of transporting oxygen and nutrients to organ tissues and transporting CO2, waste products to organs for removal from the body, it also plays an important role in blood pressure regulation.
Blood vessels in women's bodies age at a faster rate than men's. This may explain why there is a difference in the type and duration of cardiovascular disease in women and men.
One study suggested that high blood pressure occurs much earlier in women than in men, starting in the 30s, something that was previously unexplored. Previous studies have only known that the rate of atherosclerosis in women is faster than in men in the later stages of life, when they have entered menopause.
Advances in research have led scientists to suggest that the properties of blood vessels and responses to arterial stressors with age differ between men and women.

2. Women get high blood pressure earlier than men? The study analyzed nearly 145,000 blood pressure measurements collected over a 43-year period from more than 32,000 study participants ages 5 to 98 that were used to determine the age-related changes in blood pressure in men. and female.
Data show that the prevalence of hypertension in women begins early and is significantly higher than in men. The menopause transition, shows that women are indeed different from men in both health and disease.

3. Are women's cardiovascular systems different from men's? Recent research results suggest that small differences in the cardiovascular systems of men and women may begin very early and are continuing to be investigated to find out how these differences affect cardiovascular function. how women throughout life.
This can open up new therapeutic avenues in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases because currently there is no difference between the drugs for treating cardiovascular diseases between men and women. That's because we don't fully understand how differences in endocardial physiology between men and women affect their cardiovascular function differently.
Untreated high blood pressure can lead to cardiovascular disease, stroke and kidney damage. Hypertension has a lot of effects on blood vessels such as tearing, stiffness and deformation as it is related to the way in which blood is supplied to various organ systems.

4. Why is there such a difference? There are a number of known factors that can cause high blood pressure in women over the age of 30 such as life stress, lack of sleep, and hormonal changes.
Alternatively, anatomical structure can also be a factor. The difference in blood pressure is caused not only by differences in sex hormones between women and men, but also in the size, shape, and stiffness of blood vessels between women and men.
Scientists think that there is still much to learn about the differences in the cardiovascular systems of men and women. And hopefully this research will help raise awareness of the fact that women and men have intrinsic biological and physiological differences that go beyond the effects of hormones, and that these intrinsic differences tend to affects how women and men react differently to infection and to treatments.
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Reference source: healthline.com