Why the study?
What is the difference in the occurrence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus between black and white populations?
What is the difference in the occurrence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus between black and white populations?
The study highlights a significantly higher prevalence of concurrent hypertension and diabetes mellitus in black populations compared to white populations.
Higher dual hypertension-diabetes burden in blacks may prioritize screening; leaves open drivers and prospective intervention effects.
The occurrence of hypertension in the presence of diabetes mellitus was evaluated in a study of black and white populations in separate hospitals for one fiscal year. Each population was sufficiently large to be significant (blacks, 6,491 and whites, 16,184). Hypertension and diabetes mellitus each occur about twice as frequently in blacks as in whites. The combination of the diseases is almost three times as common in the black as in the white population.
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