Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Volume 2, Issue 5 , Pages 366-371 , September 2008

Characteristics of inner-city African-Americans with uncontrolled hypertension

  • Gerard Coly, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
    • ,
  • Jane M. Kotchen, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Population Health, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
    • ,
  • Clarence E. Grim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
    • ,
  • Hongyan Yang, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
    • ,
  • Andrew J. Ow, BA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
    • ,
  • Shanthi Krishnaswami, MBBS, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
    • ,
  • Theodore A. Kotchen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Theodore A. Kotchen, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226. Tel: 414-805-8696; fax: 414-805-8691

Received 6 March 2008 ,Accepted 7 April 2008.

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 This study was supported by NIH Grants 07011 and 5-M01-RR00058.

 Conflict of interest: none.

PII: S1933-1711(08)00048-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jash.2008.04.003

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Volume 2, Issue 5 , Pages 366-371 , September 2008

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