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$8.5 million grant goes to train Los Angeles barbers to check black men for hypertension
By Let's Talk Los Angeles on June 18, 2014
The head of Cedars-Sinai’s hypertension center will use a $8.5 million grant to help train black barbers to check men for high blood pressure, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announced today.“Uncontrolled hypertension is one of the biggest health problems facing the African-American community today,” said Dr. Ronald G. Victor, who published a study in 2011 showing that a barber shop-based outreach could help save hundreds of lives.
