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Hertz et al¹ call for action to decrease racial disparity in blood pressure (BP) control among treated hypertensive patients. The staff of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) had noted this disparity when the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2000 data were released and they developed a research initiative to improve hypertension control among treated African Americans.²

The 5-year, $18-million program "Interventions to Improve Hypertension Control in African Americans" consists of 5 randomized controlled trials testing several clinically feasible approaches to effect changes in medical care delivery, leading to an increase in the proportion of treated hypertensive African American patients whose BP is controlled to levels recommended by the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC) guidelines.³ The request for applications (RFA) was issued in September 2003; funding started in September 2004.² Nearly 3900 black patients are being enrolled . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Paula T. Einhorn, MD; Jeffrey A. Cutler, MD

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