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Volume 122, Issue 7 , Pages 639-646 , July 2009

The Effect of a Hypertension Self-Management Intervention on Diabetes and Cholesterol Control

This work was presented in part as a poster at the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 9, 2008.

Benjamin J. Powers, MD
- Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to Benjamin J. Powers, MD, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Hock Plaza, 2424 Erwin Road, Suite 1105, Durham, NC 27705
Maren K. Olsen, PhD
- Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC
Eugene Z. Oddone, MD, MHS
- Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD
- Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Center for Aging and Human Development, Duke University, Durham, NC

Patient flow for HbA_1c and LDL-C (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) analysis. V-STITCH=Veterans' Study to Improve the Control of Hypertension.

Patient flow for HbA_1c and LDL-C (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) analysis. V-STITCH=Veterans' Study to Improve the Control of Hypertension.
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Funding: This research is supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Health Services Research and Development Service, investigator initiative grant 20-034. The first author was supported by Grant Number KL2 RR024127 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR, NIH, or Department of Veterans Affairs.

Conflict of Interest: None.

Authorship: All authors had access to the data and contributed to writing the manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(09)00284-8

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2008.12.022

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