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Hispanics' hypertension better controlled with equal access to care
Date:9/13/2007

hypertension knowledge and awareness, doctor-patient communication, access to medical care and affordable medications, the researchers concluded.

Physicians treating Hispanic hypertension patients should treat them with the same medications as non-Hispanics, she said. If they use the right medications with aggressive follow-up, Hispanic patients blood pressure can be controlled just as well as non-Hispanics.

The Hispanic population needs to know that high blood pressure is a serious and common problem and must be treated, Margolis said.


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Contact: Karen Astle
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American Heart Association
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