Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans

Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans

Adverse blood pressure (BP) is a major independent risk factor for epidemic cardiovascular diseases affecting almost one third of the US adult population. This review synthesizes results from studies published over the past few years on BP differences and prevalent hypertension between US blacks and...

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Main Authors: Chan, Queenie, Stamler, Jeremiah, Elliott, Paul
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315875/
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spelling pubmed-43158752015-02-06 Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans Chan, Queenie Stamler, Jeremiah Elliott, Paul Pathogenesis of Hypertension (W Elliott, Section Editor) Adverse blood pressure (BP) is a major independent risk factor for epidemic cardiovascular diseases affecting almost one third of the US adult population. This review synthesizes results from studies published over the past few years on BP differences and prevalent hypertension between US blacks and whites and their different intakes of foods (e.g., fruits, vegetables, and dairy products) and micronutrients (e.g., vitamin D, calcium, potassium, and phosphorus). Studies have consistently reported higher prevalence of adverse BP levels and hypertension and less favorable dietary intakes in blacks than in whites, but the influence of specific dietary factors on high BP risk for blacks remains unclear. Springer US 2015-02-04 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4315875/ /pubmed/25648747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11906-014-0517-x Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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author Chan, Queenie
Stamler, Jeremiah
Elliott, Paul
spellingShingle Chan, Queenie
Stamler, Jeremiah
Elliott, Paul
Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans
author_facet Chan, Queenie
Stamler, Jeremiah
Elliott, Paul
author_sort Chan, Queenie
title Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans
title_short Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans
title_full Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans
title_fullStr Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans
title_full_unstemmed Dietary Factors and Higher Blood Pressure in African-Americans
title_sort dietary factors and higher blood pressure in african-americans
description Adverse blood pressure (BP) is a major independent risk factor for epidemic cardiovascular diseases affecting almost one third of the US adult population. This review synthesizes results from studies published over the past few years on BP differences and prevalent hypertension between US blacks and whites and their different intakes of foods (e.g., fruits, vegetables, and dairy products) and micronutrients (e.g., vitamin D, calcium, potassium, and phosphorus). Studies have consistently reported higher prevalence of adverse BP levels and hypertension and less favorable dietary intakes in blacks than in whites, but the influence of specific dietary factors on high BP risk for blacks remains unclear.
publisher Springer US
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315875/
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