CNN (12/6) reports “about half of hypertension cases in middle-age and older adults are shared or ‘concordant’ within couples, a new study suggests, meaning if one spouse has high blood pressure, their partner does, too.” Among heterosexual couples in China, England, India and the United States, “the women who were married to men with high blood pressure were more likely to also have hypertension themselves than those whose husbands did not have high blood pressure, according to the study.”
Furthermore, “the men who had wives with hypertension were more likely to have hypertension compared with the men whose wives did not have hypertension.” The findings were published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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— “If your spouse has high blood pressure, you’re more likely to have it too, study suggests,” Jacqueline Howard, CNN, December 6, 2023