Letter by Safar and Fournier regarding article, "Differential impact of blood pressure-lowering drugs on central aortic pressure and clinical outcomes: Principal results of the Conduit Artery Function Evaluation (CAFE) Study" [4]

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Safar, Michel E ^a   Fournier, Albert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ATENOLOL; INDAPAMIDE; PERINDOPRIL;

AORTA PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EVALUATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AMLODIPINE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTA; ATENOLOL; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDAPAMIDE; PERINDOPRIL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749615671     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.629774     Document Type: Letter

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