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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 129, No. 5: 947-955
Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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CONTRIBUTIONS OF OVARIAN FAILURE AND AGING TO BLOOD PRESSURE IN NORMOTENSIVE PERIMENOPAUSAL WOMEN: A MIXED LONGITUDINAL STUDY

EMERENTIA C. H. VAN BERESTEYN1,, MARTIN A. VAN 'T HOF2 and HUGO DE WAARD1

1Netherlands Institute for Dairy Research Ede, the Netherlands
2Department of Statistical Consultation, University of Nijmegen the Netherlands

Reprint requests to Mrs. Emerentia C. H. van Beresteyn, Netherlands Institute for Dairy Research, P.O. Box 20, 6710 BA, Ede, the Netherlands

Epidemiologic studies have shown that blood pressure increases more rapidly in middle-aged women than in middle-aged men. Whether or not ovarian failure contributes to this rapid rise is still not clear. In a follow-up study begun in 1979 and to continue for 10 years, the blood pressure of 193 healthy normotensive perimenopausal women, who lived in the mixed rural/industrial community of Ede, the Netherlands and who were initially aged between 49 and 56 years, was measured annually. During the course of the study, the onset of menopause of each participant could be established. Because of the mixed longitudinal design of the study, it was possible to evaluate the effects of both chronologic aging and time pre- or postmenopause on blood pressure. After the first seven years of follow-up, it was demonstrated that blood pressure did not increase in 168 women whose body weight was relatively stable. After multivariate analyses, systolic as well as diastolic pressure showed a significant negative relation (slope, 1.34 mmHg per year and 0.63 mmHg per year, respectively) with the years since menopause. On the other hand, the observed positive relation (slope, 0.81 mmHg per year) of systolic pressure with chronologic aging was not significant. No consistent association was found between diastolic pressure and chronologic aging. It is concluded that menopause cannot be regarded as a cause of hypertension; on the contrary, ovarian failure appears to have a protective effect on the increase in blood pressure as a result of chronologic aging.

aging; blood pressure; body height; body weight; longitudinal studies; meno pause; ovary


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