Saving lives: long-term morbidity and mortality trials with selective angiotensin receptor blocker therapy

Prospective randomised trials have demonstrated convincingly the benefits of drug treatment of hypertension. Treatment with conventional antihypertensive agents reduces the incidence of cardiovascular events by about that which would be expected from epidemiological data for the achieved difference...

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Main Author: Gordon T McInnes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi - SAGE Publishing 2000-06-01
Series:Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System
Online Access:http://jra.sagepub.com/content/1/2_suppl/S17.full.pdf