Hypertension-related disease in African Americans

Factors underlying disparities in illness and its outcome

James R. Sowers Dr Sowers is professor, departments of medicine, biochemistry, and cell biology, and director, departments of endocrinology, diabetes, and hypertension, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn College of Medicine.Correspondence[email protected]

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Keith C. Ferdinand Dr Ferdinand is professor of clinical pharmacology, Xavier University, and medical director, Heartbeats Life Center of Louisiana, New Orleans.

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George L. Bakris Dr Bakris is professor, departments of preventive medicine and internal medicine; vice chairman, department of preventive medicine; and director, Rush Hypertension Clinical Research Center, Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center, Chicago.

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Janice G. Douglas Dr Douglas is professor of medicine, pharmacology, physiology, and biophysics, and director, division of hypertension, department of medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland.

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African Americans have a higher prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), stroke, and renal disease than white Americans. The high rates of diabetes and hypertension in children and of type 2 diabetes, stroke, and CVD in women are particularly striking. In this article, Drs Sowers, Ferdinand, Bakris, and Douglas examine the biologic, social, and genetic factors that contribute to these health disparities, the risk for which appears in early childhood.

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