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  2. High blood pressure rates alone are projected to rise 27.2%, or from roughly 127.8 million to 162.5 million Americans. ... Yet significant increases are projected among people of color, especially ...

  3. Race and health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Medications were recommended at comparable rates for hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and diabetes between Whites and African Americans. [82] It has been argued that other cases of inequalities in health care reflect a systemic bias in the way medical procedures and treatments are prescribed for different ethnic groups.

  4. Race and maternal health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Chronic hypertension prior to and during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of preeclampsia, eclampsia, placental abruption, stroke, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, pulmonary edema, renal failure, and maternal death. [30] Black women are more than twice as likely as white women to be diagnosed with chronic hypertension. [30]

  5. What is Hypertension? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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    Race. You have a higher risk of high blood pressure if you’re Black. Gender. Men have a higher risk of high blood pressure than women in middle age, but women have a higher risk than men in ...

  6. Uncontrolled hypertension is getting worse in the U.S., study ...

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    An analysis of data from more than 18,000 patients with high blood pressure found that the proportion with uncontrolled hypertension had increased by 10 percent in 2017-18, compared to 2013 to ...

  7. Race and health - Wikipedia

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    Race and health refers to how being identified with a specific race influences health. Race is a complex concept that has changed across chronological eras and depends on both self-identification and social recognition. [ 1 ]

  8. A majority of young adults have high blood pressure and ... - AOL

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    A normal blood pressure reading is less than 120/80 mm Hg, while high blood pressure, or hypertension, is considered 130/80 mm Hg or higher, according to the American College of Cardiology and ...

  9. Race and health in the United States - en.wikipedia.org

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    Health ratings by race in the United States. The U.S. Census definition of race is often applied in biomedical research in the United States. According to the Census Bureau in 201