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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 ...
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 ...
The cancer incidence rate among African Americans is 10% higher than among European Americans [33] and the mortality rate from asthma is twice the rate of European Americans. [34] African Americans are found to have some of the highest rates of chronic Hepatitis C and Hepatitis C-related deaths in comparison to other populations. [35]
Similarly, a 2021 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the amount of children and teens, particularly Black children and teens living with type 2 diabetes ...
Heart failure is more common in people of African American ethnicity, mortality from heart failure is also consistently higher than in white patients, and it develops at an earlier age. [23] [25] Recent data suggests that rates of hypertension are increasing more rapidly in African Americans than other ethnic groups. [26]
Black women are at increased risk of preeclampsia, a finding that is not fully explained by the increased incidence of chronic hypertension in that population. [48] Compared to other racial groups, Black women are also more likely to have serious complications of pre-eclampsia such as eclampsia, stroke, acute heart failure, pulmonary edema, and ...
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 ...
Several studies have concluded that African Americans have a greater incidence of hypertension and a greater morbidity and mortality from hypertensive disease than non-Hispanic whites, however hypertensive crises have a greater incidence in Caucasians. [12]