The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Hypertension

There's a good deal of literature now also showing that structural racism specifically is associated with an elevated stress state and increased risk of hypertension. We're seeing this in a few other disease states as well but this stress of dealing with certain factors can definitely in itself cause these types of health issues. This seems like this could be anxiety driven. But there have been many where after rolling out other factors and making sure there's no severe target organ damage from what they've been experiencing, we get down to figuring out that there's something deeper going on.