Should African–Americans with elevated blood pressure be routinely screened for hypertensive heart disease?

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Financial & competing interests disclosure

PD Levy has received financial support for work related to this topic from the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (grant no. 1072.ii) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars Program (grant no. 64319). PD Levy and JM Flack are also recipients of ongoing financial support from the NIH/National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (grant no. 1R01 MD005849-01A1). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

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