Racial Disparity in Hypertension Control: Tallying the Death Toll
- 1 November 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 6 (6) , 497-502
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.873
Abstract
PURPOSE Black Americans with hypertension have poorer blood pressure control than their white counterparts, but the impact of this disparity on mortality among black adults is not known. We assessed differences in systolic blood pressure (SBP) control among white and black adults with a diagnosis of hypertension, and measured the impact of that difference on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality among blacks.Keywords
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