Treatment of isolated systolic hypertension: The SHELL study results

Blood Pressure

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 160-167

  Malacco, Ettore ^a   Mancia, Giuseppe ^b   Rappelli, Alessandro ^c   Menotti, Alessandro ^d   Zuccaro, M Stefano ^e   Coppini, Alessandro ^f   Achilli, Augusto ^g   Antoncecchi, Ettore ^g   Anzivino, Ferdinando ^g   Banda, Danilo ^g   Bartorelli, Luisa ^g   Bavazzano, Antonio ^g   Bellodi, Giorgio ^g   Bernardini, Livio ^g   Berrettini, Umberto ^g   Berti, Vanda ^g   Bianchini, Giuseppe ^g   Biasion, Tiziano ^g   Bisesti, Vincenzo ^g   Blasio, Antonio ^g   Bonomolo, Fiorella ^g   Bragagni, Gianpaolo ^g   Branca, Santi ^g   Brundo, Vincenzo ^g   Cabasino, Francesco ^g   Caione, Fernando ^g   Califano, Mariano ^g   Caruso, Domenico ^g   Caso, Angelo Antonio ^g   Cassani, Pietro ^g   Castiglioni, Giuseppe ^g   Catamo, Antonio ^g   Cesareo, Sannita ^g   Chiarappa, Raffaele ^g   Chiavinato, Claudio ^g   Ciaburri, Michele ^g   Cicerone, Fernando ^g   Cilla, Donatina ^g   Coglitore, Antonino ^g   Colombo, Fabrizio ^g   Compagnone, Domenico ^g   Corigliano, Pietro ^g   Corradini, Paolo ^g   Cozzio, Susanna ^g   Cristofari, Mario ^g   Dal Monte, Edoardo ^g   De Matteis, Carmine ^g   Decembrino, Michele ^g   Di Biasi, Domenico ^g   Di Fresco, Pietro ^g   Dolce, Ernesta ^g   Donadon, Valter ^g   Farino, Giovanni ^g   Fogari, Roberto ^g   Forestiero, Giuseppe ^g   Franzone, Giuseppina ^g   Fusari, Gian Pietro ^g   Galetti, Giuseppe ^g   Garognoli, Oriana ^g   Gaudio, Giuseppe ^g   Giannella, Raffaele ^g   Giorda, Carlo ^g   Giustiniani, Stefano ^g   Glorioso, Nicola ^g   Granata, Paolo ^g   Grezzana, Luigi ^g   Guala, Adriano ^g   Guizzardi, Giuseppe ^g   Ierardi, Biagio ^g   Indelicato, Vincenzo ^g   Infriccioli, Pietro ^g   Ingignoli, Biagio ^g   Landmann, Ermanno ^g   Laurini, Giorgio ^g   Lecciso, Giovanni ^g   Lo Pinto, Giuliano ^g   Lombardo, Antonio ^g   Lopez, Vincenzo ^g   Lunati, Fabio ^g   Lutri, Valter ^g   Manca, Cosimo ^g   Mancarella, Sandro ^g   Mancini, Marcello ^g   Maniscalchi, Tiziana ^g   Manopulo, Roberto ^g   Mantini, Giovanni ^g   Marc, Albert ^g   Marchi, Paola ^g   Marrocco, Fausto ^g   Martorano, Michele ^g   Marullo, Luciano ^g   Marzara, Giovanni ^g   Mastropasqua, Arturo ^g   Mazzeo, Vincenzo ^g   Meroni, Maria Rachele ^g   Montanari, Loris ^g   Moscato, Paolo ^g   Mossuti, Ernesto ^g   Nardelli, Carolina ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^d Association for Cardiac Research   (Italy)

^e Israelitic Hospital   (Italy)

^f Laboratori Guidotti SpA   (Italy)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Calcium channel blocker; Dihydropyridine; Diuretic; Hydrochlorothiazide; Isolated systolic hypertension; Mortality

Indexed keywords

CHLORTALIDONE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FOSINOPRIL; LACIDIPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPATHY; OPEN STUDY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

EID: 10744233867     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08037050310009545     Document Type: Article

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