PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Taiye Odedosu AU - Antoinette Schoenthaler AU - Dorice L. Vieira AU - Charles Agyemang AU - Gbenga Ogedegbe 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.