Monday, February 08, 2021

Higher blood pressure over life span increases congestive heart failure risk in Black people


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/mcog-hbp020521.php

 
News Release 
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

 

 Starting with early childhood, otherwise healthy Black people show signs of slightly diminished heart muscle strength and a slightly higher blood pressure than their white counterparts, factors which may put them on a course for early development of congestive heart failure, researchers report.

The take-home message for parents and physicians is that, particularly for populations at high cardiovascular risk such as Black people, a close check should be kept on blood pressure starting in early adolescence, says the corresponding author of the study in Journal of the American Heart Association.


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