Blacks Hypertension USA - Made In America

Blacks Hypertension USA is a medical problem that needs more attention - the gap between the Races in controlling Blood Pressure is well-known -

Let's take a stroll down not-so-pleasant Memory Lane.

It All Started with:

COMMODITIES:

A-B-C -

• African Americans
• Blacks
• Colored

CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE OF THE COMMODITIES:

D-E-F-G-H-I-J+K -(Seven + One Most Deadly Evils Of

Slavery.)

• Discrimination -
• Envy -
• Fear -
• Greed -
• Hate -
• Ignorance -
• Jealousy -
• Klan -

COMMENTS:

PROS -

1. Slave Labor
2. Became The Greatest Nation In The World.

1. Slave Labor
2. Created Neurological Disorder of the Commodities

   (Slaves.)

3. Medically and Mentally handicapped a Whole Race of

   People for over 400 years and still counting.

4. Added more to America's Mysterious Medical Liabilities.

This is the making of Hypertension in Blacks in America. Most Blacks who are suffering from Hypertension and probably

their doctors are not concerned about this as being relative

to their medical history.

Statements and reports from medical research

professionals and doctors - Re: Blacks Hypertension USA:

• Black patients who suffer cardiac arrest in the

  hospital are much less likely to survive than white

  patients - survival rates for Blacks were significantly

  lower, 25 percent vs. 37 percent for whites.

• The lower rates of survival to hospital discharge for

  Blacks reflect lower rates of successful resuscitation

  (55.8 percent for Blacks vs. 67.4 percent for whites - and

  survival after resuscitation (45.2 percent for Blacks vs.

  55.5 percent for whites.)

• Black patients were sicker when they had a cardiac

  arrest than whites patients.

• Black patients went to hospitals that did not perform

  as well when patients were mostly Blacks - white patients

  went to hospitals that performed better.

• Hospital effect is hugh and is a contributor to the

  difference between Black and white survival.

Last To Live - First To Die
• The gap between the races in controlling blood

  pressure is well-known.

• The most serious disparities are the 8,000 lives lost

  each year due to racial disparities in blood pressure

  control.

• Blacks were given more medication but had a higher

  pressure readings than whites.

• Blacks in the USA have on an average higher blood

  pressure than Blacks in any other Country.

• Some reasons given for disparities - Poverty and

  Cultural Habits which can prevent people from exercising,

  eating healthy foods and getting in to see a good

  doctor.

Those are some of the facts of Hypertension of Blacks in America.

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