Talk:Isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine

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[edit] Which "African Americans"

My primary concern with this drug approval is not political so much as one based on understanding that there may not be any reason to think that a person East African ancestry who is considered "Black" may not benefit from this drug any differently than anyone else if the genetic trait that makes it more likely to be beneficial simply isn't there.

If the only testing that has been done with respect to ethnic groups is to prove that it works better in Americans of African decent, then this point needs to be made really clear to any person who considers themselves of African decent but who's ancestry comes from a part of Africa other than the regions commonly used in the slave trade that produced much of the ancestors of the United States population group being studied.

If you had Russian ancestry, would you be enthusiastic about taking a drug that had been previously disqualified as not beneficial, but when they re-ran the study separating people into groups by continent, "Europeans" did well... if the vast majority of the "Europeans" being studied had Spanish ancestry?

I think this point needs to be made really clear to those of non-slave-trade African ancestry, if they are considering this medication! Zaphraud (talk) 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)