Optimal treatment of angina in older patients

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 349-357

  Doughty, Robert N ^a,b   Sharpe, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; NITRATE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DRUG USE; EDEMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REBOUND; REVIEW; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VERTIGO;

EID: 0030005133     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199608050-00004     Document Type: Review

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