Hypertension treatment in African Americans: physiology is less important than sociology.
African Americans have higher rates of hypertension and its complications than do people of other ethnic groups, and they may respond differently to various antihypertensive drugs. Social, cultural, and economic barriers to care are probably more important than any true physiologic differences between races.
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David
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Clinical Research Center, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90262, USA.
Norris
Keith
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D001741:Black or African American; D000465:Algorithms; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D008019:Life Style; D012307:Risk Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000517:prevention & control