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(Clinical Physiology Series.) Edited by John C.S. Fray and Janice G. Douglas. 299 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $85. ISBN 0-19-506720-7.

This is the third book on hypertension in blacks published in the past eight years. It reflects a growing recognition that the pathogenesis of hypertension in blacks may well differ from that in whites in ways that could account for its greater prevalence and severity. Just as health problems of Native Americans and Hispanics have come under recent scrutiny, so has hypertension in blacks assumed investigative legitimacy.

This book is multiauthored and is edited by John Fray and Janice Douglas, both of whom have important credentials in laboratory investigation. It is a helpful textbook because it is provocative and has . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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