Request for Information on Long-term Hypertension Plan

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Long-Term Plan for Research and Translation in Hypertension for Enhancing Public Health

We appreciate your comments by March 7, 2005.

To submit your thoughts, opinions, and suggestions on the topic areas please:

Print this form and mail your responses to: Ms. Jeanette Duggan, Two Rockledge Centre, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 8133-MSC 7936, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7936, or
Print this form and fax your responses to: Ms. Jeanette Duggan at (301) 480-1669, or
Email your responses to: mailto:nhlbi_decacapp@nhlbi.nih.gov

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1) If you would like to offer any comments on the overall scope of the Plan in terms of the areas that are included and their importance to public-health-related goals in hypertension, please provide them here.

2) If you would like to suggest any areas consistent with the goals of the Plan that appear to have been omitted or inadequately developed, please provide them here. Some examples that have been suggested are:

Pathogenesis of systolic hypertension in the elderly.
Comparative effectiveness of different treatments among hypertensive patients with different pathophysiologic profiles.
Mechanistic studies of genetic and environmental factors in causing target organ damage in the young.
Obtain normative 24-hour blood pressure data in children and adolescents.
Treatment trial in young adults with subclinical cardiovascular disease measures as outcomes, and including comparisons of drug classes.
Evaluation of various approaches to management of resistant hypertension.
Obtain epidemiologic data on hypertension in sub-groups of Hispanics in addition to Mexican-Americans.
Explore factors, including genetics, responsible for the differential susceptibility of African Americans and whites to hypertensive kidney disease.
Collect additional information to elucidate the possible role of depression in hypertension.
Further studies of the role of uncontrolled hypertension in the etiology of dementia.
Clinical outcomes trial in adults of effects of increasing potassium and reducing sodium intake.

3) If you would like to suggest proposals in the Plan that you believe should be given the highest priority for implementation, please list them here.

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