According to the American Heart Association, about 55% of Black adults have high blood pressure. Black Americans also have disproportionately high rates of severe hypertension and tend to develop it earlier in life. BlackVoicesWTTW
Higher rates of obesity and diabetes among Black Americans increase the risk for high blood pressure, and uncontrolled hypertension is a major risk factor for stroke, heart failure and kidney disease.“There’s a lot of socioeconomic factors that make it pervasive [in the Black population],” said Dr. Pierre Blemur, a nephrologist and assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “Lack of access to medical care, lack of insurance sometimes plays a role.
“It’s almost always asymptomatic, or something that we don’t really feel,” Everett said. “And I always say that when you do feel it, that’s really the danger time. That’s the time where you really have to be concerned about some of the death, the acute effects that may that happen with high blood pressure, such as a stroke or congestive heart failure or vision disturbances that can come right at the time of the high blood pressure.
“Many people find out that they may have high blood pressure at a physical screening when they come to the doctor’s office,” Colbert said. “But oftentimes what happens is that people are actually hospitalized for whatever reason — maybe they didn’t feel good, were on the verge of having a stroke, they had a heart attack or are being hospitalized for pre-procedure – and checking their blood pressure at that time.
“Everyone should be screened for it just because it’s so prevalent,” Everett said. “Dr. Elijah Saunders has written many books about high blood pressure. He used to say that about 70% of African Americans will have high blood pressure by the time they’re 60, and he said by the time you’re 70, it almost comes up to about 100%. I think it just underscores the importance of how many of us need to be screened and understand that it is very, very prevalent, and it probably will happen to you.
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