Abstract
Since the Department of Health and Human Services was the source of the task force report on the health status of black persons and members of other minority groups, it is not too surprising that several of its agencies have been prompt to respond to the report's findings. For example, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md, has set up a study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the black population and a study of the development of obesity in black women. These studies, institute officials point out, respond to one of the needs identified by the tast force—that for better data collection as a first step in coping with the causes of health problems in minority populations. Institute officials say that only one study of hypertension has, to their knowledge, included enough black participants to allow conclusions about whether pharmacologic lowering of blood pressure reduces the
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