Association of parity with the prevalence of hypertension in Japan: The Tohoku Medical Megabank Community-based cohort study.

"CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT Noriyuki Iwama, Nobuo Yaegashi, and Masatoshi Saito are members of Women's Health Care Medical Science, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. Employment: You Nakamichi and Keiichi Yuwaki (Dai‐ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited, which had no involvement in the statistical analysis, interpretation of results, manuscript writing, or decision to submit the manuscript for publication). The remaining authors have nothing to declare."

"We greatly thank all the participants in this study and the researchers of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization as of September 1, 2022 (https://www.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/english/a220901/). We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.jp) for English language editing. This study was partly supported by research funding from Women's Health Care Medical Science at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine."