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.