Young women are dying of high blood pressure at four times the rate they were in 1999
Hypertensive heart disease deaths among U.S. women aged 25-44 rose from 1.1 to 4.8 per 100,000 between 1999 and 2023. Non-Hispanic Black women bore the highest toll at 8.6 per 100,000, and the South led all regions. Over 29,000 young women died during the study period.




