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Activation of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), elevated oxidative stress and inflammation, and sympathetic hyperactivity in the cardiovascular organs and cardiovascular regulatory systems, are all involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension. Sex hormones interact with these prohypertensive systems to modulate blood pressure, and this interaction may lead to a sex-specific development of programmed hypertension. A more complete understanding of the functional capabilities of the sex hormones and their interactions with prohypertensive factors in offspring, from early life to aging, would likely lead to new insights into the basis of sex differences in programmed hypertension. Recently, we have discovered that sex differences also occur in the sensitization of offspring hypertension as programmed by maternal gestational hypertension and that this requires the brain RAS and proinflammatory factors. In this review, we will discuss the possible mechanisms underlying sex differences in sensitization to hypertension in the offspring of mothers exposed to various prenatal insults. These mechanisms operate at various levels from the periphery to the central nervous system (e.g., blood vessel, heart, kidney, and brain). 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