Individualization of Antihypertensive Drug Treatment
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Individualization of Antihypertensive Drug Treatment
Antihypertensive drug classes are usually classified as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th or 5th choice to help physicians select the drug most suitable for treatment initiation among the very many classes available to lower blood pressure (BP) in patients with a BP elevation. However, this approach was appropriate decades ago when several drugs had inconveniences that made their use in monotherapy inadvi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/dcs13-2013