High blood pressure is the most common and chronic medical condition among fifty million Americans today. High blood pressure can result to Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and other cardiovascular diseases. These complications result to more than 35,000 deaths in the United States. One reason for this is because individuals who have high blood pressure do not present any symptoms that they are inflicted with this disease many have come to call as the “silent killer” (People’s Medical Society [PMS], 1996; Sorensen, et al. , 1985). High blood pressure has been known to affect males and females.
However, research in reference to high blood pressure has been, for the past few decades, concentrated on males. It is only recently that research has been done on the occurrence of high blood pressure among females as a result of stress. Much of the research done on the occurrence of high blood pressure on females as a result of stress have conflicting results with some research concluding that high blood pressure due to stress occurs more among males than females while some research concluding that the occurrence of high blood pressure among females as a result of stress occurs as often, if not more frequently, than in males.
Evidence will be presented in this paper that will show that the conflicting results on the frequency of high blood pressure occurring among females are due to the additional responsibilities brought about by biological factors, psychological factors and the lifestyle of females. In the end, the paper aims to provide that conflicting research results on the occurrence of high blood pressure among women is due to how the individual is able to their ability to handle multiple tasks, biological factors and psychological factors.