Average blood pressure has risen since the coronavirus pandemic started, and women might be more at risk for heart-related issues, according to a study.
The findings were based on 464,585 people from 50 states and the District of Columbia. All took part in an annual employer-sponsored wellness program that required them to have their blood pressure checked during 2018, 2019 and 2020. The authors then compared the changes in their readings from year to year.During the pandemic, the average increase each month, compared to the previous year, ranged from 1.10 to 2.50 for the top number of the reading, and 0.14 to 0.53 for the bottom number.
Those are “not huge increases” when just looking at the numbers, but even small rises increase a person's cardiovascular disease risk, Laffin said. Since the analysis involved a representative population of almost half a million people, and given that hypertension is a symptomless “silent killer” — already affecting about 100 million U.S. adults — he worried about the consequences down the road.
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