High blood pressure in women. The prevalence of hypertension among men and women is closely correlated with age. At age 35, a woman is only one-third as likely to have high blood pressure, and fares better in her prognosis, than a man her same age. By age 65, this gap evens out, with women running the same risk as men.ome factors that affect blood pressure canât be helped, like age, race, heredity, and gender. Then there are other predominant factors, such as diet, lifestyle, environment and emotional state, that are just as important and wholly within your control.
Photo by Sigrid Estrada. New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell has more than eighty titles published to date with over twenty-four million copies of her books in print. She lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with her husband, with whom she writes novels under a pseudonym.
Laurie Halse Andersonâs Chains, published by Simon & Schuster in 2008, is a young adult novel. The main character is Isabel, a thirteen-year-old slave who works for the Locktons, a Loyalist family in Manhattan with her sister, Ruth.