• Cleve Clin J Med · Jan 2012

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    Overcoming barriers to hypertension control in African Americans.

    • Taiye Odedosu, Antoinette Schoenthaler, Dorice L Vieira, Charles Agyemang, and Gbenga Ogedegbe.
    • Bellevue Adult Primary Care Practice, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA.
    • Cleve Clin J Med. 2012 Jan 1; 79 (1): 46-56.

    AbstractBarriers to blood pressure control exist at the patient, physician, and system levels. We review the current evidence for interventions that target patient- and physician-related barriers, such as patient education, home blood pressure monitoring, and computerized decision-support systems for physicians, and we emphasize the need for more studies that address the effectiveness of these interventions in African American patients.

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