Cramps, bloating, moodiness, the embarrassment of weeping at a tiny puppy licking its owner. Aren’t periods a magical marker of womanhood?
Turns out that hidden within all the joy and tampon fun, bad PMS hides a worrying effect for your health later on.
A new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology (H/T Washington Post) has found that those who experience bad PMS are more likely to have health problems in later life.
The study analysed 3,720 women of around 40 years old, 1,257 of which had been diagnosed with bad PMS.
Over the course of twenty years, it became clear that those with moderate to severe PMS were 40% more likely to have developed hypertension – abnormally high blood pressure.
The symptoms that indicated a higher likelihood of high blood pressure in later life… Read the full story