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“Puerto Ricans have a higher death rate linked to high blood pressure than blacks, whites or other Hispanic-Americans do, federal health researchers said Thursday in one of the first analyses of specific U.S. Hispanic populations.
Health officials don’t know why and said more study is needed to find the cause. One expert said it could be related to health care, diet or genetics.
Puerto Rican-Americans had 154 high blood pressure-related deaths per 100,000 people in 2002, according to the researchers’ review of death certificate data.”
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