Determinants of blood pressure response to ace inhibitor monotherapy in hypertensive African Americans and Caucasians

Variability in Response to Antihypertensive Drug Treatment

“…It is this variability within individuals and the overlap of group responses that is the central point of the study by Mokwe et al reported in this issue of Hypertension. 6 In brief, the authors used data from the Quinapril Titration Interval Management Evaluation (ATIME) study on 533 African American and 2046 white patients to evaluate the influence of race and other factors on blood pressure response to quinapril. They also assessed the degree to which nonrace factors influenced the apparent racial differences.…”