High blood pressure has traditionally been considered more common in men than women. The fact is, however, that this deadly disease attacks both genders almost equally.

But there is another, even more surprising fact about gender gap and high blood pressure that you may not know about.

Canadian researchers, looking to isolate the reason senior women have a harder time controlling blood pressure than senior men, delved into the gender gap in a study recently published.

In a study looking at men and women between the ages of 60 and 79, all with hypertension, scientists looked at possible reasons why women have a much harder time getting their blood pressure under control than men.

They looked at variables such as income, race, use of blood pressure drugs and the existence of other diseases, called co-morbidities.

They were unable to find any one factor alone that would consistently explain why 30% of the women’s blood pressure was uncontrolled versus only 17% uncontrolled in men.

Factors that are harder to study, such as stress-related variables not linked to socio-economic, age, race, or co-morbidities are the likely culprit in the gender gap.

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