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