PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lederman, Lynne
ED  - Winter, Jobst
TI  - Even Small Improvements in Control of Hypertension May Improve Cardiac Function in Afro-Caribbean Individuals
DP  - 2013 Nov 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 15--15
VI  - 13
IP  - 14
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/14/15.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/14/15.full
AB  - Most hypertension guidelines are based on randomized studies that enrolled few black patients. In the Caribbean, treatment of hypertension is important especially in black patients, who suffer from higher rates of hypertension-associated morbidity and mortality (eg, diastolic dysfunction, heart failure, renal disease) than non-black patients. This article discusses successful pilot studies of a primarily black patient population using a database developed over a decade.