Dr. John Flack of Wayne State's School of Medicine, presented the results of a study on the use of a new hypertension pill combination at the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks 2006 meeting. Atorvastatin/Amlodopine single-pill combination was recently tested on two groups; one group was African-American, and the other was non-African-American. The results showed that 48.5 percent of the African- American group reached their blood pressure goals, while 58.5 percent of the non-African-American group reached their goals.