Prevalence and risk factors for hypertensive crisis in a predominantly African American inner-city community.

CONCLUSIONS: The study highlights the high prevalence of hypertensive crisis and hypertensive emergencies in the predominantly African American urban population, which is 5 times the United States average. However, race is not a predictor of development of hypertensive emergencies and acute target organ damage in patients with already severely elevated blood pressure. PMID: 30669866 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Blood Pressure - Category: Hematology Tags: Blood Press Source Type: research