Adherence to Antihypertensive Therapy With Fixed-Dose Amlodipine Besylate/Benazepril HCl Versus Comparable Component-Based Therapy
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Amlodipine and cardiovascular outcomes in hypertensive patients: meta-analysis comparing amlodipine-based versus other antihypertensive therapy
BACKGROUND/AIMS This meta-analysis compared the effects of amlodipine besylate, a charged dihydropyridine-type calcium channel blocker (CCB), with other non-CCB antihypertensive therapies regarding the cardiovascular outcome. METHODS Data from seven long-term outcome trials comparing the cardiovascular outcomes of an amlodipine-based regimen with other active regimens were pooled and analyzed...
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Hypertension is the leading cause of disability and cardiovascular mortality world-wide. Approximately one-third of the US adult population and over a billion people world-wide have hypertension. Despite increased awareness of hypertension and availability of many effective antihypertensive agents, only one third of patients achieve their target blood pressure (BP). All expert panels now recomm...
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PURPOSE Single-pill-combination (SPC) antihypertensive drug products have been shown to improve compliance but are associated with higher acquisition costs. This study compared the clinical and economic outcomes associated with the use of an SPC of amlodipine/valsartan (trade name Exforge) with the outcomes from conventional combination therapy in patients failing to respond to initial monother...
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عنوان ژورنال: Congestive Heart Failure
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1527-5299,1751-7133
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-5299.2003.03269.x