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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 f...

'African Gene Theory' Is a Myth, and It's Harming Black Men's Heart Health Rozalynn S. Frazier © Mark Harris, Men's Health 'African Gene Theory' is a myth and its entrenchment in the medical community may be harming the heart health of Black men. Here's why sodium is not to blame. 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 ...