Race-Based Prescribing for Black People with High Blood Pressure Shows No Benefit
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- 2022
This blog explains how generations of physicians have been taught that Black people with high blood pressure should be treated with a narrower range of medication options than all other racial groups. It explains that this race-based approach to prescribing has no apparent patient benefit.
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