Study on Blood Pressure Changes in Postmenopausal Women.

Menopause occupying one-third of women's life and women face various physiological, psychological and biochemical changes during this period. The systolic and diastolic blood pressure was significantly elevated among postmenopausal women as compared with reproductive women. To assess the blood pressure changes in healthy postmenopausal women in order to compare this parameter with healthy reproductive women, this analytical type of comparative study was carried out in the Department of Physiology, Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh from January 2017 to December 2017. Two hundred healthy women (100 female were postmenopausal as study group and 100 female were reproductive women as control group) aged between 25 to 65 years were enrolled in this study. Blood pressure of the individual was measured by an android sphygmomanometer and stethoscope with appropriate size of cuff. Data were expressed as mean±SD and statistical significance of difference among the group was calculated by unpaired students' 't' test. The mean±SD of systolic and diastolic blood pressure were higher in postmenopausal group in comparison to the reproductive women group. This study concludes systolic and diastolic blood pressure increases in postmenopausal women.