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Trends in antihypertensive drug treatment.
To the Editor: It is disappointing to read once again that “b-blockers and thiazide diuretics are the only antihypertensive agents that have been shown to reduce cardiovascular mortality.”1 In these days of evidence-based medicine, we must ask: where is the evidence for this statement? The basic data referenced by Wang et al1 are those of the meta-analysis of Psaty et al,2 which are also shown ...
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BACKGROUND Over the past decade, calcium channel blockers (CCBs) and ACE inhibitors have been used increasingly in the treatment of hypertension. In contrast, beta-blocker and diuretic use has decreased. It has been suggested that pharmaceutical marketing has influenced these prescribing patterns. No objective analysis of advertising for antihypertensive therapies exists, however. METHODS AND...
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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...
متن کاملVariability in response to antihypertensive drug treatment.
One of the definitions of the word pragmatic is “practical as opposed to idealistic.” Many of the controversies regarding the issue of the use of race to any degree whatsoever in medical decision-making may be more of a result of tensions between pragmatic and idealistic positions on the issue. The biological determinants of human intraarterial pressure are such that there is no precise cutpoin...
متن کاملTrends in antihypertensive drug therapy by US office-based physicians.
US Office-Based Physicians To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Nelson and Knapp1 on the trends of antihypertensive therapy by US office-based physicians. Their findings are clearly significant, but some of their conclusions are not supported by the data presented. The authors state that “physician antihypertensive drug prescribing was generally consistent with the basic an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.101.21.e209