Initial antihypertensive prescription and switching: a 5 year cohort study from 250,851 patients.

Initial antihypertensive prescription and switching: a 5 year cohort study from 250,851 patients.

<h4>Purpose</h4>Adverse effects of antihypertensive therapy incur substantial cost. We evaluated whether any major classes of antihypertensive drugs were significantly associated with switching as a proxy measure of medication side effects in a large Chinese population in Hong Kong.<h...

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Main Authors: Martin C S Wong, Wilson W S Tam, Clement S K Cheung, Ellen L H Tong, Antonio C H Sek, George John, N T Cheung, Bryan P Y Yan, C M Yu, Stephen Leeder, Sian Griffiths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23341959/?tool=EBI

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