In married couples, high blood pressure often affects both partners

A US team of scientists has now identified a special health connection: If one partner suffers from high blood pressure, this is often the case with the other.

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“High blood pressure is known to be common in middle-aged and older adults, but we were surprised to find that in many older married couples in the United States, England, China and India, both the husband and wife had high blood pressure,” said lead study author Chihua Li quoted by the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore/USA) in the German Medical Journal. “For example, in the United States, more than 35 percent of couples over 50 years of age both spouses had high blood pressure.”

The similarity of important health parameters between long-term spouses has long been known. For the first time, researchers have proven this effect on high blood pressure in very different countries and regions of the world.

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