III. Key Points of Antihypertensive Treatment-life-style Modification and Drug Therapy
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Appraisal of antihypertensive drug therapy.
SUMMARY Four completed prospective studies of drug-treated and control hypertensives utilizing double blind ran-domized protocols are reviewed for the purpose of evaluating the evidence on which the present therapeutic crusade is based. Patients studied were predominantly male, observed for short period, had complications or died at young age, had high incidence of previous target organ vascula...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0021-5384,1883-2083
DOI: 10.2169/naika.104.218