It has long been known that black and white people have a different probability of cardiovascular disease, including hypertension.

In the United States, one of the versions of this "inequality" was considered to be the socioeconomic status, which in the black population of the country is generally much lower than that of the white.

A recent study conducted by the staff of the Medical Center at Vanderbiltt University shows that the matter is not at all in status - the high risk of hypertension in African Americans is due to some other factors.

Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson of UVMC reports in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes about a major study in which factors of hypertension in 69,000 black and white people were studied.

All of them participated in the Southern Community cohort study (Southern Community).

All participants in the study had approximately the same socioeconomic status.

More than half (57%) of participants reported the presence of hypertension, and in black (especially in women) this problem was detected much more often.

BP control confirmed the results.

The frequency of hypertension in black participants was 2 times higher than that of whites, and this difference can not be explained by socioeconomic inequality.

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