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ArticleThe American journal of the medical sciences2014

Racial differences in hypertension: implications for high blood pressure management.

Daniel T Lackland

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Article in The American journal of the medical sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04230928 (A Pilot Study Comparing Dietary Approaches to Decrease Hypertension in a Lower Income, African American Population at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 232 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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232citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT04230928 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

A Pilot Study Comparing Dietary Approaches to Decrease Hypertension in a Lower Income, African American Population at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

TypeinterventionalSponsorBaylor Research InstituteRan2020 to 2023Enrolled64ConditionsHypertension, African Americans, Diet, Carbohydrate-Restricted, Risk Reduction BehaviorArmsVery low carbohydrate diet, Standard DPP-GLB diet, Standard DPP-GLB program modules
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

232 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 404 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniel T LacklandDepartment of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
Medical University of South Carolina · US

Funding

Black Pooling ProjectR01HL072377 · NHLBI · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI LACKLAND, DANIEL T · 2003 to 2005
$657k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL072377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The racial disparity in hypertension and hypertension-related outcomes has been recognized for decades with African Americans with greater risks than Caucasians. Blood pressure levels have consistently been higher for African Americans with an earlier onset of hypertension. Although awareness and treatment levels of high blood pressure have been similar, racial differences in control rates are evident. The higher blood pressure levels for African Americans are associated with higher rates of stroke, end-stage renal disease and congestive heart failure. The reasons for the racial disparities in elevated blood pressure and hypertension-related outcomes risk remain unclear. However, the implications of the disparities of hypertension for prevention and clinical management are substantial, identifying African American men and women with excel hypertension risk and warranting interventions focused on these differences. In addition, focused research to identify the factors attributed to these disparities in risk burden is an essential need to address the evidence gaps.

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Black or African AmericanBlack PeopleBlood PressureBody WeightFemaleHumansHypertensionMaleRisk FactorsSodium Chloride, DietaryUnited StatesWhite PeopleSodium Chloride, Dietary

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PMID24983758
PMCPMC4108512
OpenAlexW2053090093

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