U.S. Hispanics have lower rates of high blood pressure

“Researcher Luisa N. Borrell, assistant professor of epidemiology with Columbia University’s school of public health, said her research is the first to examine hypertension along racial lines within the Hispanic ethnic group.

On the whole, U.S. Hispanics have lower rates of high blood pressure (16.8 percent) than non-Hispanics (24.7 percent), the study found….”

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