Your race and high blood pressure in medicine and science has been and continues to be presented with the premise that there are inherent physiological differences between races. Race is commonly accepted as one of the risk factors for hypertension.
Additionally, African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely to experience high blood pressure than their Anglo- American counterparts. For African-Americans, elevations in blood pressure happen at an earlier age, is often more severe and more than any other race, are at a higher risk for this life threatening disease.
Race Based Science and Medicine
With the advent of the science of genetics, epidemiology, and other modern biology, perspectives, opinions and research has appeared in respected journals discrediting the notion of race being a risk factor for disease. Despite present-day research, social perceptions and concepts originating from the 18th century – which had no scientific foundation – are readily available on the internet, in the public, in research, in medical school and in practice.
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