Black patients with hypertension not prescribed diuretics enough, study suggests
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 00:00
in Health & Medicine
A research study of more than 600 black patients with uncontrolled hypertension found that less than half were prescribed a diuretic drug with proven benefit that costs just pennies a day, report researchers. The researchers say these new findings should be taken as a serious wake-up call for physicians who treat black patients with hypertension.