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Impact of recent landmark clinical trials on hypertension treatment
High blood pressure remains an important global cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Strategies for treating hypertension continue to change as new evidence becomes available from clinical drug trials or observational studies on hypertension treatment. As new hypertension guidelines become available, the impact of these trials become evident from changes in the recommendations of tr...
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There are numerous trials in hypertension many of which have focused on cardiovascular (CV) outcomes (death, non–fatal Myocardial Infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure). These trials have influenced our clinical practice in terms of setting out guidelines in the treatment of Hypertension. However, the last three years have seen newer trials emerge which we feel will influence the new upc...
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Current projections predict that, by the year 2025, 29.2% of the adult population worldwide will have hypertension, a total of 1.56 billion people.1 Such figures are hard to visualize, as are the billions of dollars being spent on the Iraqi invasion. Enough to say that hypertension is now and has long been the most common risk for the most common causes of death in all but the most primitive po...
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Introduction T epidemic of type 2 diabetes is a growing public health problem that threatens to reduce life expectancy and increase morbidity as a result of its complications. Hyperglycemia, the cardinal feature of diabetes, can be controlled either by the exogenous administration of insulin or through oral antidiabetic drugs which increase insulin secretion, improve insulin sensitivity or redu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.01.027