According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.
Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.
Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
African-Americans are underrepresented.
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
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