TY - JOUR T1 - Overcoming barriers to hypertension control in African Americans JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine JO - Cleve Clin J Med SP - 46 LP - 56 DO - 10.3949/ccjm.79a.11068 VL - 79 IS - 1 AU - Taiye Odedosu AU - Antoinette Schoenthaler AU - Dorice L. Vieira AU - Charles Agyemang AU - Gbenga Ogedegbe Y1 - 2012/01/01 UR - http://www.ccjm.org/content/79/1/46.abstract N2 - Barriers 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. ER -