BACKGROUND In January 1997, reference pricing for angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for patients 65 years of age or older was introduced in British Columbia, Canada. For medications within a specific class, insurance covers the cost up to the reference price, and patients pay the extra cost of more expensive medications. Although reference pricing may reduce the costs of prescripti...

to an Alu repetitive sequence 287 base pairs (bp) long has been described. The ACE inBackground – Inhibitors of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) cause a nonsertion/deletion polymorphism was found to be associated with serum levels of ACE and, in productive cough. The insertion/deletion polymorphism of ACE was used as a gensubjects who are homozygous for the D allele, the mean serum level of ...

OBJECTIVES We sought to evaluate the common utilization of beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or receptor blockers (RBs) in congestive heart failure (CHF). BACKGROUND We assessed the association between prescriptions of beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors or RBs within three months after hospitalization and mortality for newly diagnosed CHF in Alberta, Canada senior...

Can ACE Inhibitors Promote Detrimental Vascular Effects After Percutaneous Injury? To the Editor: Zhuo et al1 reported interesting observations in vivo about the effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition with perindopril on plasma ACE levels and cellular expression of ACE, AT1 receptors, and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms in human blood vessels. Oral ACE inhibition at conv...