The researchers from US found that, the higher degree a person has, the lower their blood pressure has. Hypertension or high blood pressure is associated with heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. This association is stronger in women in comparison to men.
In order to analyze effects of education on blood pressure, a study investigated thirty years statistics from four thousand people who were being followed as part of the Framingham Offspring Study. The participants were divided into three groups. First group include people with low education, second with middle education and third with high education.
Then their average systolic blood pressure was calculated for the period of thirty years. It was found that women with low education had a blood pressure 3.25mmHg higher than those with a high level of education. While in men this variation was 2.26mmHg, reported the journal BMC Public Health.
The researchers also took into consideration, other aspects like smoking, drinking, obesity and taking blood pressure medication and the effect on blood pressure remained though at much lesser level. Attaining low education has been exhibited to incline individuals to high strain jobs, typified by high levels of demand and low levels of control, which linked to increased blood pressure.
Women with less education are more prone to be suffering depression, they are more prone to be single parents, more prone to be living in deprived areas and more prone to be living below the poverty line, explained lead researcher Prof Eric Loucks, from Brown University.
According to Natasha Stewart, senior cardiac nurse from the British Heart Foundation, these findings support existing proof about the association between socio-economic deprivation and heart disease risk. But the study only showed up a small blood pressure drop among women and an unimportant decline among men.
She added that action is desired crossways all parts of society to provide children the best possible start in life and diminish health inequalities.