PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Martins, David
AU  - Norris, Keith
TI  - Hypertension treatment in African Americans: Physiology is less important than sociology
DP  - 2004 Sep 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 735--743
VI  - 71
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/71/9/735.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/71/9/735.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2004 Sep 01; 71
AB  - African Americans have higher rates of hypertension and its complications than do people of other ethnic groups, and they may respond differently to various antihypertensive drugs. Social, cultural, and economic barriers to care are probably more important than any true physiologic differences between races.