Dr. Chisholm, principal investigator for the study, also serves as assistant professor of pharmacy at the University of Georgia and associate clinical professor of medicine at the Medical College of Georgia. The clinical pharmacist interaction that was provided to the intervention group included several strategies. Pharmacists talked with patients regarding the importance of compliance and provided encouragement to maintain medication regimen. Clinical pharmacists made recommendations to improve medication therapy. The findings presented at today's meeting are part of a larger study, which also involved White and other ethnic patients.
Preliminary data suggests similar findings in other populations as well.
The conference is supported in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Each year, its international interdisciplinary conference presents advancements in the treatment and prevention of diseases concomitant to hypertension. In addition to US conference locations, other sites for the conference have included Toronto, London, the US Virgin Island, Kenya, Cameroon and Brazil.