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7899289

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
36
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-4-25
pubmed:abstractText
High blood pressure in black subjects has been recognized as a clinical entity because of high prevalence, frequent severe complications and pathophysiological and therapeutic specificities. Results from 52 centers in 32 countries show wide variability. In the black population in United States, mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels are high, 128/81 mmHg, with a prevalence of hypertension reaching 33.5%, while an ethnic population in Kenya has low mean levels, 110/68 mmHg, with a hypertension prevalence of only 5%. Complications have been reported to be more frequent in black populations. In the United States, in comparison with the white population morbidity due to left ventricular hypertrophy is increased by 2, end-stage renal failure by 4.2 and mortality due to cerebral vascular diseases by 1.5. However, risk factors including over-weight, alcohol consumption, sodium intake and the socioeconomic environment have been shown to explain most of the differences between the white and the black populations. Differences in diagnosis and management may also play a role. Indeed, while genetic selection may have had an effect, there is no current scientific data which would justify using the colour of the skin as a genetic marker for high blood pressure.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0755-4982
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1642-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
[The entity of arterial hypertension in black subjects].
pubmed:affiliation
INSERM U258, Hôpital Broussais, Paris.
pubmed:publicationType
Editorial, English Abstract, Review