Men tend to suffer from hypertension and high blood pressure more than women.
But the risk for women goes up after menopause reaching men's risk levels for high blood pressure. In 1990 over 33,000 Americans died from hypertension related diseases. Arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis often occur prior to hypertension. Your blood pressure should be taken several times during a day to be accurate as a single reading is usually not good enough. Often people with hypertension are eating a poor diet with not enough fruits and vegetables.