Nitrates as adjunct hypertensive treatment: A possible answer to resistant systolic hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 352-353

  Nesbitt, Shawna D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE;

DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG CHOICE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; NITRATES;

EID: 14644412420     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000156749.83009.5b     Document Type: Editorial

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