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In the U.S., Black people bear a greater burden of hypertension than any other racial or ethnic group. Investigators hypothesized that beyond traditional risk factors, the experience of discrimination contributes to higher hypertension prevalence and tested the hypothesis by analyzing data on 1845 African-American participants without baseline hypertension from the Jackson Heart Study, the longitudinal investigation of genetic and environmental risk factors associated with the disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease in African Americans.
Experience of discrimination was measured at visit 1 by two validated scales measuring lifetime and everyday discrimination. Of the participants, 954 (52%) developed hypertension during follow-up. …