Noteworthy News: Survey Suggests Link between Racism, High Blood Pressure in African Americans

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noteworthy news: Survey Suggests Link between Racism, High Blood Pressure in African Americans

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Researchers at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta have provided the first empirical evidence suggesting that racism may be a contributing factor to the unusually high prevalence of high blood pressure and its attendant cardiovascular effects among African Americans.

The connection was revealed by a survey of 400 African Americans' perceptions of stress and racism led by Dr. Sharon Davis, chief of the Social Epidemiology Research Division at Morehouse.

Davis, a social epidemiologist whose research includes the effects of stress on blood pressure, …