Lesser response to angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor therapy in black as compared with white patients with left ventricular dysfunction

Authors :: Exner, Derek V.
Dries, Daniel L.
Domanski, Michael J.
Cohn, Jay N.
Source :: The New England Journal of Medicine. May 3, 2001, Vol. 344 Issue 18, p1351, 7 p.
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: Black patients with heart failure may not respond to treatment with ACE inhibitors. This was the conclusion of a study of 1,196 white patients and 800 black patients with heart failure who all took the ACE inhibitor enalapril.

Subjects :: Health and race -- Research
Heart failure -- Drug therapy
ACE inhibitors -- Health aspects

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