Interventions to Improve Hypertension Control Rates in African Americans

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Interventions to Improve Hypertension Control Rates in African Americans: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute invites applications for research project grants (R01) to evaluate clinically feasible interventions to effect changes in medical care delivery leading to an increase in the proportion of treated hypertensive African American patients whose blood pressure is controlled to levels specified by Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC) guidelines. The ultimate goal is to prevent complications of hypertension, and thus increase quality and years of healthy life in African Americans - a group with highest prevalence and earliest onset of hypertension, and disparately high premature cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. For the purpose of this initiative, components of medical care delivery consist of patients, clinicians, interactions between patients and clinicians, and physical, social and administrative environments in which these interactions occur. This solicitation addresses both overarching goals of Healthy People 2010 http://www.healthypeople.gov (increasing quality and years of healthy life, and eliminating health disparities) and is responsive to the first of two research needs recommendations of the 2002 IOM report, Unequal Treatment http://www.iom.edu/includes/dbfile.asp?id=4175 (Recommendation 8-1: Conduct further research to identify sources of racial and ethnic disparities and assess promising intervention strategies), and to the first of the eight top-tier priorities of the 2001 NHLBI Task Force Report on Research in Prevention of CVD http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/resources/docs/cvdrpt.htm (Evaluate approaches to enhance implementation of efficacious preventive interventions in medical systems at all stages of clinical practice).