PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Odedosu, Taiye
AU  - Schoenthaler, Antoinette
AU  - Vieira, Dorice L.
AU  - Agyemang, Charles
AU  - Ogedegbe, Gbenga
TI  - Overcoming barriers to hypertension control in African Americans
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.79a.11068
DP  - 2012 Jan 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 46--56
VI  - 79
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/79/1/46.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/79/1/46.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2012 Jan 01; 79
AB  - 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.