African-Americans and High Blood Pressure

" One of the most serious health use in the African American community is hypertension. Doctor original Robin on Washington DC to cardiologist. And some of them of this."

" is that a disease is most people know my blood pressure. And blood pressure would be a measure of how hard contracts that I never -- systolic blood pressure and heart squeezes. It's not reading tomorrow reading is when the heart relaxes oklahomans are -- shouldn't."

" Hypertension has indicated when the blood pressure reading and number equal to or eating 140 over ninety. Often those were developing hypertension or underwear it."

" The most common symptom is actually not. You don't want to actually have symptoms we have hypertension so when you're having symptoms from hypertension that's when you're having a stroke. -- your personal congested heart failure on people only be a little more fatigue. And a nose bleed over -- contact us --"

" The sex of hypertension on the African American community are."

" When you look at our population. And -- all we'd probably have the leading cause of skinny safe from hypertension we have pirates in and you probably four times more likely is that. I kidney failure or required now is probably -- four times more likely to have a stroke hypertension. And hypertension leading cause -- are financing -- yeah."

" There are several theories as to -- African Americans seem to be more susceptible to hypertension."

" Something that's because more salt incidents and the requirement impressionists and user acquired two -- three medicines. To control -- blood pressure and there's also the issue of health care disparity. Aren't a lot of folks aren't getting the proper treatment are not getting -- the doctor and get. Hypertension control until it was too late and having symptoms of content apartheid era difference heart attack -- machine."

" The risk factors hypertension range from genetic factors to lifestyle like obesity lack sufficient exercise diet. And the sense of -- But there is also thought to be a cultural component."

" It's going to be a little more salt sensitive that's something that we've grown from how we had distort things and what do you do distort things you've -- in salt. And now that's something still ingrained in our culture and that's something we need to really change it. Those with hypertension. Serious complications can run to stroke. I'm probably two to three times or two to four times higher risk of stroke from hypertension. Are there again the leading cause of congestive heart and a communities hypertension. -- and everyone knows -- limits on dialysis. Or requiring -- sit in the room for three hours at a time three days a week. -- any doubts and feel especially in urban areas has seen young American man you know Kraft American women. American -- aggressively."

" Well there are treatment options available for hypertension. Sometimes meet with in the African American community can stand in the way."

" Smith and -- leave this here in the medical community. And that they're going to New Guinea pigs. I mean everyone knows about -- he -- experiments. In the -- in the medical community in -- they're still teaching -- a medical schools are. An African Americans are responding well to other medications that it. Caucasian Americans -- sponsored and that's also -- that's just. Being more aggressively treating we may need more front -- are responsible thing that could. Those who do seek treatment there are some standard letter initially done. Economy and everyone gets the blood pressure checked and simplest thing he did she give -- pressure checked and we will do it in both arms to make sure there -- equal. I'm getting KG electrocardiogram. That look at the electrical system unconsciously taken a photo. I mean it's a recording with charts to me that 12. When that -- used to. He wore high blood pressure that I can do on echo cardiogram or an ultrasound sonogram most people that I sonogram. And actually looks at him. If you -- and sent -- a chest pain -- pressure there are different types stressed that we actually did."

" Once a patient is diagnosed with hypertension. There are several major class of drugs available for treatment."

" Blind people on the water filled with a flotilla that has sent -- I didn't name a direct it. Now that's comedy -- Those on the -- and I don't and alcohol count of criminal Monaco. There was a beneficial people -- diabetes to help protect you can use another class is called beta blocker. Beta blockers they block adrenaline everyone knows adrenaline say -- attorney and a car your heart rate increases. Has adrenaline. The beta blockers trying to help blunt that attack. -- class called calcium channel blocker and they work in different way. Some of the names that might hear in north and ask for cardiac. Artisan still -- them correctly."

" Aside from medications. Some treatment in -- daily activities patients can do for themselves."

" I always try to turn TLC cars -- lifestyle change I don't have to tell people that they don't need to. You know to smoke I don't need to tell you we're gonna need to -- excessively. Or I don't need to tell people that they need a better you know more active lifestyles and looting and mostly unnoticed in reinforcement of it. Condit they can do this for you didn't come to say if you came and would call stage one hypertension. That's hypocrisy that top number 1421. And 59. Over eighty or 9299. And you can probably get away with total I'd change first or considering a drug if you have other co morbid condition meaning he had diabetes I think it. Or your smoker with -- you had a stroke with it but everyone's going to get that TL the -- And lifelong actually. Because you'll end up adding more drugs if they're still going to St. candidates. If there's so smoking is there's still overweight if they're still. Throw salt on. So PLC's first and any -- on top of that if needed."

" For those who have hypertension. And those who don't getting a regular blood pressure test is important. How often that should be done --"

" Yeah entrance in the nor -- you're just going to chair routine. And valuation you don't have hypertension for St. And -- newly bases. Thank you have hypertension anytime you can make you change in the blood pressure medicine so you may need to come back in a -- into it varies on how high blood pressure is. -- co morbid condition learn the meaning whatever medical issues you have to especially diabetes. Stroke congestive heart failure of our heart attacks."

" Since hypertension is such is serious issue some medical professionals aren't trying to -- directly into the African American community. To get their message routine testing and lifestyle change across."

" Going to -- I do is actually go out. To the community and give back. -- Macintosh to the community organizations. Go into the communities actually talked and people and you know and I can't -- already has enough its allies are changed and that's. Music that we might be our own worst enemy. And it -- trying to prevent -- to maintain our health."