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The Truth About Salt, Black Men, and Heart Health

Mark Harris YOU WOULD never think that a 1988 American Heart Association (AHA) conference would set the stage for decades of debate around of all things sodium and race. But that’s where Clarence Grim, M.D., seeded a theory about Black health that has been difficult to uproot ever since. Dr. Grim, then the director of the hypertension research center at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, hypothesized that high rates of hypertension among African Americans were due to the horrors of slavery, including the Middle Passage, the mass transport of slaves from West Africa to North America from roughly 1600 to 1800.

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