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Study highlights: Phone calls and low-cost gifts to African Americans with hypertension increased how frequently they correctly took their medication. Taking medication consistently and correctly is a major issue in all patient populations and especially African Americans, researchers said.

Women who have had two or more induced abortions have a reduced risk of pre-eclampsia by 60 %. It is not currently understood to what degree physical activity during pregnancy protects against pre-eclampsia, compared to previous studies. This is shown in two new studies from the Norwegian Institute of Public health (NIPH) that use data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).

Researchers have found that low potassium levels correlate with high blood pressure, regardless of salt intake or cardiovascular risk factors, and the association is stronger among blacks, according to a study presented this week at the American Society of Nephrology's annual meeting in Philadelphia, Reuters health reports.

A new study published in the Annals of Family medicine suggests that the lives of 8,000 blacks could be saved each year if their blood pressure was controlled to the average level of whites, the AP/Albany Times Union reports. The study, by Kevin Fiscella of the University of Rochester

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