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Higher Blood Pressure Kills 8,000 Black Americans a Year

Extent of deadly racial disparity surprises researchers

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 11, 2008 5:00 AM CST

(Newser) – Some 8,000 lives a year are being lost because blacks suffer from higher blood pressure than the white population, surprising new research has discovered. "We expected it to be big, but it was even larger than we anticipated," said a researcher of...   Read full story »

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