american heart association hypertension

"Adult African-Americans have higher heart weight -- a condition that can lead to serious heart disease -- at two to three times the rates of whites, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have shown. The researchers discovered that within the general population, African-American patients have a higher rate of increased heart weight, or left-ventricular hypertrophy, than whites regardless of their differences in body fat and overall body composition. The study, available online, was to be published in an upcoming issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. Elevated blood pressure seemed to be the best indicator of why African-Americans in the study had a higher rate of left-ventricular hypertrophy or LVH, the UT Southwestern research team found." Doesn't this seem as illogical as not voting for McCain because he may develop alzheimers. Even though the two candidates are perfectly healthy. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050608053213.htm

There is someone answering these questions. He calls himself a "Cardiovascular physicist". He has made this statement: "I know more than most doctors about this, (research) and it bugs the hell out of me to read so much tosh from answerers who simply relay now-discredited information." That is very presumptuous, pompous and arrogant. Especially when you consider that he has not provided one link or other documented resource as reference to substantiate his views. Those views are well outside what vast majority of the medical community teaches us layman patients. His views are not in line with the American Medical Association, American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute or any other major source of information. His views contradict everything my Cardiovascular Surgeon, Cardiologist, and General Practioner have told me about my own hypertension. I ask him, "Where is your proof (documentation)"? I consider this person a threat to others health until he can show proof of what he says. Until he does, he is an unreliable source of fictions, fairytales and fables belonging on the library shelves next to the comic books. Be very careful of the answers you get on here. Most people are well meaning but just don't really understand how to convey their thoughts (this includes me from time to time). Others are way out in "left field" and provide information that is NOT widely accepted in main stream medicine and either can not or will not provide links to documentation or proof of their beliefs. I try hard to back-up my information with links to well trusted web sites with widely accepted information. I don't claim to be some physicist and offer my leftist beliefs and expect you to accept them like a dog to a food bowl. Here is some sources that I reference: "I know more than most doctors" http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aupz1iuXNv.kzBpJYN296Wjty6IX?qid=20070604161742AA92UwM "No such thing as "blood pressure". " http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Av49Xi33jDkL3oAQ2KO.XKHty6IX?qid=20070609073041AAxD0IY Again where is the PROOF, PROOF, PROOF?