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In the present study, we applied a strategy of distributional decomposition (16) to analyze blood pressure disparities and their determinants.
The extant literature also reveals that key hypertension risk factors may not explain blood pressure disparities in a linear way across blood pressure distributions; there are complex relations between factors such as body mass index (BMI) (3), tobacco smoking (10, 11), alcohol consumption (11– 13), sodium intake (14, 15), and ultimate hypertension risk.
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The blood pressure disparity is unlikely to be because β blockers are inherently less effective at lowering blood pressure than other drugs 14 but rather because achieving a precisely equivalent blood pressure reduction in two arms of a comparator trial is extremely challenging.
As shown in Web Figure 1A and 1B, the baseline blood pressure disparity between black and what participants was approximately 1 6 mm Hg higher among black men and women than among white men and women after inclusion of sample weights to estimate population-representative distributions.
Mechanistically this occurs when there is a pressure-volume disparity between the abdominal cavity and its contents.
In the present study, we used decomposition methods to identify how population-level reductions in key risk factors for hypertension could reshape entire population distributions of blood pressure and associated disparities among racial/ethnic groups.
The drivers of armed conflict are evolving, and now include such factors as climate change, demographic pressures and increased disparities in access to essential services and protection among population groups.
The pressure reflects the substantial disparities between pay increases for senior executives, the low rate of wage growth for workers and the frequent disconnect between compensation and the long-term strategic success or failure of corporations.
Overall, although higher rates of tobacco smoking among white participants leads to a relative increase in systolic blood pressure, thereby narrowing the disparities between black and white participants, the association is negated by differences in sodium intakes and BMIs.
And here and there, when New Yorkers talk about crime and remember the bad old days, many have come to assume that a police force tired of pay disparity, relentless pressure to produce and public second-guessing has grown sluggish.
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