How Does Gender Affect Blood Pressure?

Statistics Are high blood pressure and gender independent ?

• A group of volunteers for a clinical trial consists of 88 women and 87 men. 20 of the women and 17 of the men have high blood pressure. Are high blood pressure and gender independent? Explain. Question options: Yes; a patient with high blood pressure cannot be both male and female No; P(High blood pressure and Male) = 0.097 P(High blood pressure and Female) = 0.114 These are not equal No; P(High blood pressure) = 0.211 P(High blood pressure| Female) = 0.227 These are not equal Yes; P(High blood pressure| Female) = 0.211 P(High blood pressure| Male) = 0.211 These are equal. Yes; P(High blood pressure| Female) = 0.227 P(High blood pressure| Male) = 0.227 These are equal.

• Answer:

  yes and yes