Ethnicity and blood pressure.
The prevalence, impact, and control of hypertension differ across racial and ethnic subgroups in the United States population. Whether race/ethnicity should be a significant consideration in the choice of individual antihypertensive drugs continues to be a topic of intense interest and debate. This brief review will discuss recent findings that bear on the management of hypertension in these special patient groups.
Oparil
Suzanne
S
Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007, USA. soparil@uab.edu
Wright
Jackson T
JT
D001794:Blood Pressure; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015995:Prevalence; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology