Effect of Gender and Age on Blood Pressure

EFFECT OF GENDER AND AGE ON BLOOD
PRESSURE

Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................4
Hypotheses..................................................................................................................................................5
Research methodology................................................................................................................................6
Results.........................................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................15
References.................................................................................................................................................16

Abstract
This research was carried out to assess the impact of age, gender and physical activity on blood
pressure levels. The effect of age and physical activity (running) was found not to have
significant effect on blood pressure. Gender-being male or female was found to have significant
difference on blood pressure.

Introduction
According to (Pregnancy, 2000) blood pressure is the pressure of blood on the walls of blood
vessels as the heart pumps it around the body. Blood pressure naturally goes up and down all the
time, adjusting to the heart’s needs depending on what is doing. Blood pressure tends to be low
during rest whereas it rises during exercise (Jing Fang, 2002).
High blood pressure occurs when blood pressure is unusually higher than normal. Blood pressure
above 139/89 mmHg can be described as high blood pressure (Cheng, 2014). Blood pressure
may be influenced by several factors some of which are age, gender, weight, genetics, alcohol
activity and how much physical activity one does (M Türkmen, 2004).
For purposes of this research we shall assess the impact of gender and age on systolic and
diastolic blood pressure.
Research question
The following two research questions guided the study:
i. Does gender have any impact on systolic blood pressure?
ii. Does gender have any impact on diastolic blood pressure?
iii. Does age have any impact on systolic blood pressure?
iv. Does age have any diastolic impact on blood pressure?
v. Does age and differences in diastolic blood pressure have any impact on changes in
systolic pressure?
vi. Does gender and differences in diastolic pressure have any impact on changes in systolic
blood pressure?