RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Angiotensin-receptor blockers: Benefits beyond lowering blood pressure
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 825
OP 832
VO 72
IS 9
A1 Silverstein, Russell L.
A1 Ram, C. Venkata S.
YR 2005
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/72/9/825.abstract
AB A number of controlled clinical trials provide evidence that angiotensin-receptor blockers improve the prognosis in a variety of conditions that place patients at high cardiovascular risk. The effect is more than one would expect from the effect of these agents on blood pressure alone. The results of some of these trials have expanded the indications for these drugs.