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n overwhelm the natural ability of the body to take care of it, she says.

When she looks to see the toll all this takes on the kidneys, she finds about a 50 percent increase in the amount of protein excreted in the urine - a sure sign of kidney disease - in the males.

She notes that by age 70, the rates of cardiovascular disease and hypertension are similar in men and women and that older women tend to have higher blood pressures than age-matched men.

Dr. Sullivan earned her Ph.D. at Albany Medical College in New York before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at MCG in 2000 and joining the faculty in 2003. She received the American Physiological Society Research Recognition Award in 2003 and the Merck New Investigator Award in 2006. Her work is funded in part by an American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant.


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