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The paper shows that Black Americans having descended from the slave trade have largely retained the allele associated with equatorial populations, have higher sodium retention than other populations in America (including black people who later emigrated to America after the slave trade had ended), and have correspondingly higher hypertensive ...
It was founded in 1986 by the physicians Dallas Hall, Neil B. Shulman, and Elijah Saunders, in response to concern about high rates of hypertension among African Americans. By 2006, the society had broadened its scope to focus not just on reducing rates of hypertension among African Americans, but also on improving the health of all minority ...
However, high-SES men with high levels of John Henryism were found to have lower levels of hypertension than their low–John Henryism, high-SES counterparts. [1] African Americans with high John Henryism scores were less likely to be current or former smokers than those with low scores. African-American college students with high John Henryism ...
A new study discovered hypertension doubled in Black and Indigenous pregnant people, raising concerns around treatment. While the maternal mortality […]
Even when controlling for socioeconomic status, racial divides in health persist. For example, Black Americans with college degrees have worse health outcomes than White and Hispanic Americans who have high school diplomas. [24] Studies on heart disease mortality have found that gaps between Black and White Americans exist at every education level.
OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of the struggle for civil rights. The post Black History/White Lies: The ...
Neil Barnett Shulman (March 18, 1945 – November 6, 2023) was an American doctor and medical writer, who was an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Emory University. [1] He conducted and published clinical research on hypertension and was the co-founder of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks. He was also the author ...
Resources like BlackPast.org, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Library of Congress are great ways to learn little-known facts about Black history and broaden ...