CSANZ Webinar: Sex differences in hypertension diagnosis and management

High systolic blood pressure is the leading cardiovascular risk factor for women worldwide. There's increasing evidence of the physiological changes women experience over their lifetime, including a steeper increase in blood pressure starting in their thirties. 

Although the absolute number of people diagnosed with hypertension has doubled, control rates have not changed over the past thirty years. While women have greater awareness and higher use of antihypertensive medication, sex differences remain, and women are less well-controlled than men.

Identifying and understanding the barriers—including patient engagement, health system factors, and clinical inertia—need to be addressed together. High blood pressure is preventable, and improving control in primary care saves the most lives.

The speaker

This session is presented by Dr Anastasia Mihailidou, who runs the Diagnostic Ambulatory Blood Pressure (ABP) Monitoring Clinical Service at Royal North Shore Hospital and engages in both biomedical and clinical research as Head of the Cardiovascular & Hormonal Research Laboratory at the Kolling Institute and Honorary Associate Professor at Macquarie University.

Her research passion is the accuracy of blood pressure measurement for self-management and prevention of hypertension, as well as sex differences in hypertension. She has contributed to consensus statements and guidelines, including the Australian Guidelines for ABPM. Anastasia was part of a Select Committee that coordinated the successful application to the Medical Services Advisory Committee for Medicare reimbursement for ABPM listing.

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