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Compared with men, women with high blood pressure are more likely to be obese and have high cholesterol levels. they are also less likely than men to receive medications such as aspirin, blood pressure-lowering drugs, or cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Heart disease is the number one killer of women — an estimated 480,000 women die of cardiovascular disease every single year.