Washington: Researchers have found that education is inversely associated with higher systolic blood pressure and the association may be stronger in females than males in United States.
Recent study conducted by Eric B Loucks, Michal Abrahamowicz, Yongling Xiao and John W Lynch, published in BMC Public Health 2011. The study looked at 30 years of data from 3,890 people who were being followed as part of the Framingham Offspring Study.
Professor Eric Loucks, who conducted the study at Brown University, said: “Women with less education are more likely to be experiencing depression, they are more likely to be single parents, more likely to be living in impoverished areas and more likely to be living below the poverty line.”
The study found education is inversely associated with cardiovascular disease incidence in developed countries. Blood pressure may be an explanatory biological mechanism.
However few studies have investigated educational gradients in longitudinal blood pressure trajectories, particularly over substantial proportions of the life course. The study objectives were to determine whether low education was associated with increased blood pressure from multiple longitudinal assessments over 30 years.
Furthermore, it was taken care to separate antecedent effects of education, and other related factors, that might have caused baseline differences in blood pressure.
Natasha Stewart, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: “These findings support existing evidence about the link between socio-economic deprivation and heart disease risk.
“However, the study only showed up a small blood pressure drop among women and an insignificant decrease among men.
“Action is needed across all parts of society to give children the best possible start in life and reduce health inequalities.”
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