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Controlling hypertensive disease and its complications among black Americans. Current challenges.

Author(s) -

Jeremiah Stamler

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.986

H-Index - 265

eISSN - 1524-4563

pISSN - 0194-911X

DOI - 10.1161/01.hyp.14.3.235

Subject(s) - medicine , annals , blood pressure , ethnic group , family medicine , epidemiology , hypertensive heart disease , gerontology , heart failure , history , ancient history , sociology , anthropology

In summary, intensive sustained stepped-care treatment programs for hypertensive blacks, including those of lower socioeconomic status, are capable of markedly reducing and perhaps eliminating the unfavorable prognosis of blacks compared with whites with HBP. Thus, the differential unfavorable to blacks is not primarily a consequence of inevitable inborn predispositions

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