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Populations of African descent in Nigeria, Jamaica, and the US
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Supports environmental drivers of hypertension disparities in African-descent populations; leaves open causal confirmation and intervention trials.
The steep gradient in hypertension prevalence among populations of African descent is primarily driven by environmental factors like BMI and salt intake rather than genetics.
Forrester et al. (1998) studied this question.
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