Hypertension Develops Early, Silently, In African-American Men
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 13:36
in Health & Medicine
Young and healthy African-American men were found to silently develop hypertension earlier than their white counterparts, and this rise in blood pressure may go undetected unless young African-American men are screened by measuring central blood pressure, not brachial pressure, according to a new study.