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Combination therapy in hypertension.
The goal of antihypertensive therapy is to abolish the risks associated with blood pressure (BP) elevation without adversely affecting quality of life. Drug selection is based on efficacy in lowering BP and in reducing cardiovascular (CV) end points including stroke, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. Although the choice of initial drug therapy exerts some effect on long-term outcomes, i...
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Combination therapy of hypertension with separate agents or a fixed-dose combination pill offers the potential to lower blood pressure more quickly, obtain target blood pressure, and decrease adverse effects. Antihypertensive agents from different classes may offset adverse reactions from each other, such as a diuretic decreasing edema occurring secondary to treatment with a calcium channel blo...
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Hypertension is a condition that involves multiple body organs and physiological systems. Maintaining blood pressure (BP) by using one class of drugs that affect one or two systems usually have inadequate response and result in a compensatory or counter-regulatory response from others to blunt the targeted effect of individual drug. For example, starting with diuretics result in initially decre...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: South African Family Practice
سال: 2007
ISSN: 2078-6190,2078-6204
DOI: 10.1080/20786204.2007.10873513