American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 1 , Pages 30-36, January 2009

A barber-based intervention for hypertension in African American men: Design of a group randomized trial

  • Ronald G. Victor, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, and Donald W. Reynolds Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Ronald G. Victor, MD, Professor and Chief, Hypertension Division, UT Southwestern Medical Center Rm U9.404, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-8586.
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  • Joseph E. Ravenell, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, and Donald W. Reynolds Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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  • Anne Freeman, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Community Outreach, Department of Health Care Science, Allied Health, Science School, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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  • Deepa G. Bhat, ME

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, and Donald W. Reynolds Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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  • Joy S. Storm, BS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, and Donald W. Reynolds Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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  • Moiz Shafiq, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, and Donald W. Reynolds Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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  • Patricia Knowles

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, and Donald W. Reynolds Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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  • Peter J. Hannan, MStat

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
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  • Robert Haley, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX
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  • David Leonard, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, and Donald W. Reynolds Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
    • Division of Biostatistics, Department of Clinical Science, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Received 3 June 2008; accepted 20 August 2008.

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 This work is funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (Bethesda, MD) (RO-1 HL080582), the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation (Las Vegas, NV), unrestricted educational grants from Pfizer, Inc (New York, NY), and Biovail, Inc (Bridgewater, NJ), and the Aetna Foundation Regional Health Disparity Program (Hartford, CT). The sponsors were not involved in the design and conduct of the studies, the collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data, and played no role in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.

 ClinicalTrials.gov indentifier: NCT00325533.

PII: S0002-8703(08)00733-3

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2008.08.018

American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 1 , Pages 30-36, January 2009

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