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A 3 page research paper that discusses the reasons for the high incidence of hypertension among blacks. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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complications, such as a higher incidence of coronary disease and stroke (Middleton, 2009). According to Tilbert, et al, (2008), there are many African Americans who use unconventional folk remedies, which
are passed from one generation to the next, to treat hypertension. The Tilbert research team conducted a study to investigate this cultural factor. Twenty-one percent reported that they were
using home remedies for the control of hypertension and the two most commonly used home remedies were garlic and vinegar (Tilbert, et al, 2008). This study concluded that the home
remedy use could be considered as a "marker of positive self-care for some hypertensive Africans Americans and not a promoter of non-adherence" to prescribed regimens (Tilbert, et al, 2008, p.
91). Research has found that African Americans use of home remedies is positively associated with their beliefs concerning efficacy, as well as the affordability of prescription medications (Tilbert, et al,
2008). As this suggests, African Americans low rates of adherence to taking prescribed medicines may be directly related to lay beliefs concerning the accuracy of the biomedical disease model
for hypertension (Middleton, 2009). For example, many blacks do not conceptualize as a "chronically progressive and silent condition," but rather view it as an "episodic and symptomatic disease" (Middleton, 2009,
p. 12). Additionally, many blacks believe the principal cause of hypertension to be stress, "resulting from being black, experiencing racism and coping with multigenerational family responsibilities" (Middleton, 2009, p. 12).
Nevertheless, it is also a fact that, in general, African Americans are "less physically active, eat fewer fruits and vegetables, and have higher body mass index (BMI) than whites" (Middleton,
2009, p. 12). In summarizing the folk beliefs that African Americans hold concerning hypertension, Middleton (2009) points out that this belief system and body of perceived cultural knowledge differs
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