ContextDespite evidence of efficacy of antihypertensive agents in treating hypertensive
patients, safety and efficacy of antihypertensive agents for coronary artery disease (CAD) have …

BACKGROUND: Compliance with treatment is a sine qua non for successful treatment of
chronic conditions like hypertension. Fixed-dose combinations are designed to simplify the …

Background Prehypertension is considered a precursor of stage 1 hypertension and a
predictor of excessive cardiovascular risk. We investigated whether pharmacologic treatment of …

Contextβ-Blockers have been shown to decrease cardiovascular risk in patients with
hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM); however, some components of the metabolic …

PURPOSE: Antihypertensive medications have different effects on left ventricular mass. We
conducted a meta-analysis of double-blind trials that measured the effects of …

… Messerli and coauthors had full access to the data, and this manuscript represents their …
Messerli and colleagues suggest that there is a nadir for diastolic blood pressure below which …

Essential hypertension can be defined as a rise in blood pressure of unknown cause that
increases risk for cerebral, cardiac, and renal events. In industrialised countries, the risk of …

Objective.—To assess antihypertensive efficacy of β-blockers and their effects on cardiovascular
morbidity and mortality and all-cause morbidity compared with diuretics in elderly …

Over the past 2 decades, nifedipine in the form of capsules has become widely popular in the
treatment of hypertensive emergencies. Unlike other agents, such as sodium nitroprusside, …

PURPOSE: An obesity paradox, a “paradoxical” decrease in morbidity and mortality with
increasing body mass index (BMI), has been shown in patients with heart failure and those …