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
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