Management of Hypertension in High-Risk Ethnic Minority with Heart Failure

<table>Higher rates of hypertension-based heart failure among African American patients compared to white patients in heart failure trials. V-HEFT: Vasodilator Heart Failure Trial; SOLVD: Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction; US Carvedilol: US Carvedilol Heart Failure Trial; BEST: <svg height="16.6625" id="M6" style="vertical-align:-3.56265pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 10 16.6625" width="10" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg>-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial; MERIT-heart failure: Metoprolol CR/XL Randomized Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure [<a href="/journals/ijhy/2011/417594/#B14">14</a>].</table>

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