Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Rural African. Americans. Overall Health Status Diabetes Control have undiagnosed diabetes. Hypertension Control …
Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Rural African Americans
Overall Health Status
Previous rese arch has indicated that persons living in rural areas are more vulnerable to poor health than those living in urban areas Minorities in particular are more vulnerable to poor health than non-minorities Many issue s including limited access to care and under-diagnos is of certain disea ses can affect the health outco mes of vulnerable populatio ns diagnosed diabete s, ne arly 61 have ina dequate diabetic control, versus almos t 43 of urban white s A quarter of rural African Americans w ith diagnos ed diabe tes have diabe tic retinopa thy, compared to only 12 of urban w hites Rural African Americans and urba n Afric 
an Americans w ere more likely than rural and urban whites to
Diabetes Control Among rural African-Americans with
have undiagnosed diabetes Hypertension Control Nearly a quarter of rural African Americans who had been diagnosed with hypertension still had elevate d diasto lic blood pressure compa red to just 14 of urban white s Rural African Americans had the highest prevalence of undiagnos ed diastolic hypertension and the second highest prevalence of undiagnosed
systo lic hypertension
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