High Blood Pressure High blood pressure or hypertension is a preventable and treatable disease. Unfortunately, this disease continues to kill and disable many people. It is a common cause of death, stroke, heart failure, and the second leading cause of kidney failure behind diabetes. Other than having a genetic predisposition, a major cause of hypertension is the […]
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Did you know that Booker T. Washington died from complications of uncontrolled high blood pressure? FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1915: DR. B.T. WASHINGTON, NEGRO LEADER, DEAD “Washington’s death…….was the focus of the 2006 Historical Clinicopathological Conference (CPC) sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Veterans
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