New findings from The Bogalusa Heart Study show a link between elevated blood pressure (BP) in childhood and the development of microalbuminuria in adulthood in African Americans but not in whites.
This suggests that African Americans “may be more susceptible than whites to BP-related renal damage,” Dr. Gerald S. Berenson of Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and colleagues write in the December issue of the American Journal of Hypertension.
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