Crystal W Cené, Jacqueline R Halladay, Ziya Gizlice, Katrina E Donahue, Doyle M Cummings, Alan Hinderliter, Cassandra Miller, Larry F Johnson, Beverly Garcia, Jim Tillman, Edwin P Little, Marjorie R Rachide, Thomas C Keyserling, Alice Ammerman, Haibo Zhou, Jia-Rong Wu, Darren DeWalt
The Southeastern United States has the highest prevalence of hypertension and African Americans have disproportionately worse blood pressure control. The authors sought to evaluate the effect of a multicomponent practice-based quality improvement intervention on lowering mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) at 12 and 24 months compared with baseline among 525 patients, and to assess for a differential effect of the intervention by race (African Americans vs white). At 12 months, both African Americans (-5.0 mm Hg) and whites (-7...
April 2017: Journal of Clinical Hypertension