Hypertension in black communities: how to reduce avoidable risk

Tips for nurses on how to offer culturally appropriate support to address disproportionate risk in people with black African or Caribbean heritage

We know that people from black African and black Caribbean communities are more likely to develop high blood pressure, but what is less known is how the condition is understood and managed in these populations.

Black patients are more likely than white patients to be aware they are hypertensive, more likely to be treated for hypertension, more likely to treated more intensively, and yet they are less likely to have their blood pressure controlled .

Knowing ethnicity is a risk factor must inform our approach

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