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Greater blood pressure disparities among leaner white and black individuals

Author(s) -

Jill E. Abell,

Daniel T. Lackland,

Stuart R. Lipsitz,

Brent M. Egan,

P WILSON,

Robert F. Woolson

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2005.03.275

Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , body mass index , cohort , obesity , overweight , demography , negroid , cohort study , cardiology , gerontology , epidemiology , sociology

The association between obesity and hypertension is well-documented but racial differences might confound this relation. The Black Pooling Project consists of nine cohort studies and includes 8,920 black women, 7,175 black men, 27,606 white women and 37,413 white men who were followed for 8 to 30 years between 1960 and 1995. The figure shows the gender-racial specific, ageand cohort-adjusted systolic blood pressure means according to levels of body mass index (BMI). After controlling

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