According to recent studies, women may need to maintain their blood pressure in order to avoid developing uterine fibroids.
In a recent study, middle-aged women followed for up to 17 years found that if they took medication for their high blood pressure, they had a 37% lower risk of developing these uncomfortable growths.
Conversely, “patients with new-onset hypertension had a 45% increased risk of newly reported fibroids,” according to a group headed by Kaiser Permanente’s research scientist Susannah Mitro in Oakland, California.
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Fibroids
According to the study, up to 80% of women at the age of 50 may have uterine fibroids, which are benign but uncomfortable tumors that develop in the uterus.
Although fibroids can cause pain and bleeding, there is currently no known way to stop them.
In the latest research, Mitro’s team examined data from 1996 to 2013 for 2,570 American women who, starting at age 45, signed up for the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation.
When they enrolled in the study, none of these women had ever been diagnosed with fibroids; but, during the next 17 years, 20% of them did.
Additionally, the women’s blood pressure was monitored over time.
The likelihood of uterine growths in women and blood pressure were shown to be strongly correlated by the researchers.
For instance, according to Mitro’s study, “those with treated hypertension had a 20% lower risk,” whereas those whose high blood pressure went undiagnosed and untreated were 19% more likely to develop fibroids.
The researchers also found that women who took ACE inhibitors, a specific type of drugs, for their high blood pressure saw a 48% reduction in their risk of fibroids.
Blood pressure and the risk of fibroid tumors may not be directly linked, but the researchers noted that “if associations are causal, antihypertensive medication use where indicated may present an opportunity to prevent… fibroid development at this high-risk life stage.”
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