Minorities Less Likely to Have Blood Pressure Unde...(renal complications and stroke than whit...),Health

Date:9/23/2009

renal complications and stroke than white patients with high blood pressure," Touyz said. "If we can understand better what are the mechanisms that are responsible for the differences in hypertension rates and why the complications are more severe, it will allow us to better treat patients who are black."

In addition, certain high blood pressure treatments don't work as well in blacks. Classes of drugs that inhibit the renin-angiotensin system, which can raise blood pressure when overactive, tend to be more effective in whites, Touyz said.

The data used in the study did not include information about what medications participants were taking or the doses.

Education and outreach programs targeting minorities, along with aggressive screening and treatment for hypertension, would help eliminate some of the disparities, the researchers said.

More information

The American Heart Association has more on high blood pressure.

SOURCES: Nerses Sanossian, M.D., assistant professor, neurology and associate director, Stroke Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Rhian M. Touyz, M.D., Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Hypertension and senior scientist/professor, medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada; Sept. 23, 2009, presentation, American Heart Association's High Blood Pressure Research Conference, Chicago

'/>"/>

Copyright©2009 ScoutNews,LLC. All rights reserved

0 GOOD

Page: 1 2 3
Related medicine news :

1. Minorities have poorer results, higher rates of inappropriate surgery to prevent stroke
2. AADE, Emory University and Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute Partner to Educate and Improve Access to Care for Atlanta-area Minorities with Diabetes
3. HIV Atlas Shows Virus Targeting Minorities
4. Study finds segregation decreases access to surgical care for minorities
5. U.S. Civil Rights Commission to Hold Public Briefing on Health Care Disparities Between Minorities and Non-Minorities, and Business Meeting
6. M. D. Anderson study predicts dramatic growth in cancer rates among US elderly, minorities
7. Minorities to Bear Brunt of Rise in U.S. Cancer Cases
8. Economic Bad Times Put Minorities at Higher Crime Risk
9. Minorities Distrust Medical System More
10. Building trust, increasing awareness among minorities
11. Terror Fears Tougher on Minorities, Disabled