Likelihood of African Americans to have high blood pressure versus non-Hispanic whites
Stat: African Americans were 1.4 times as likely as non-Hispanic whites to have high blood pressure.
Stat Categories: African-American Stats
Tags: African American African American,Black African American,Black,Negro
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Publisher (site that mentioned this stat): The Office of Minority Health
Submitted By: Michael Raeford
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