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Is Tennessee aiding the ‘silent killer’?

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High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease, the leading killer in Memphis, the U.S. and around the world. The disease strikes African American and low-income populations particularly hard. Tennessee has the sixth-highest mortality rate due to heart disease in the nation.

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Is Tennessee aiding the ‘silent killer’?

Erica Williams, 38, didn’t know she had high blood pressure until doctors informed her when she was at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women to give birth to her third child in 2019. Afterward, she didn’t treat it seriously — “I felt fine,” she said — until perhaps two years later when she started fainting. “I didn’t know how serious it was until I started having blackouts and passing out at work,” she said. Subscribe to MLK50’s weekly newslette…

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