Sexual Assault and Harassment linked to High Blood Pressure in Women

In America, women are becoming victims of blood pressure due to maltreatment and sexual harassment at the working place for a long time.

Prolonged sexual harassment at workplace is related to other diseases including hypertension. This revelation has come from a study. Recently, research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that if a woman is a victim of sexual harassment in the workplace, then she is more likely to have high blood pressure compared to women who have had such a thing. The incident did not happen. Women are at increased risk of hypertension and heart attack.

Heart attacks account for one-third of women’s deaths from diseases related to hypertension. Epidemiological researcher Rebecca Lawn from the Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Harvard, found that 44 percent of women in the United States each year report being molested in the office. At the same time, 80 percent of women report malpractices in the workplace. This study was done on 33 thousand women who did not have any complaints like high blood pressure till 2008.

The age of these women ranged from 40 to 60 years. During the research, he was asked some questions about stress. Seven years later, in 2015, the health reports of all these women were revisited. Along with this, when the questions were repeated, it was revealed that 1 out of 5 women i.e. 20% had become a victim of hypertension and blood pressure.

Symptoms of hypertension even in low-income women

Women who faced both conditions had a 21% increased risk of hypertension. At the same time, the risk of high blood pressure increased only by 15% among women who were sexually assaulted and 11% among women who were victims of abuse. According to Rebecca Lawn, they did not find evidence that those who had suffered any other type of trauma and had high blood pressure. Many low-income women were screened for health. During this time it came to the fore that such women who have been victims of sexual harassment at one time or another, symptoms of hypertension have started to develop.

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