TY - JOUR AU - Brewster, Lizzy M. AU - Seedat, Yackoob K. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/05/30 TI - Why do hypertensive patients of African ancestry respond better to calciumblockers and diuretics than to ACE inhibitors and β-adrenergic blockers? Asystematic review JO - BMC Medicine SP - 141 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Clinicians are encouraged to take an individualized approach when treatinghypertension in patients of African ancestry, but little is known about whythe individual patient may respond well to calcium blockers and diuretics,but generally has an attenuated response to drugs inhibiting therenin-angiotensin system and to β-adrenergic blockers. Therefore, wesystematically reviewed the factors associated with the differential drugresponse of patients of African ancestry to antihypertensive drugtherapy. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-141 DO - 10.1186/1741-7015-11-141 ID - Brewster2013 ER -