Clinical trials for hypertension: Expectations fulfilled and unfulfilled

Hypertension

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-259

  Kaplan, Norman M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; LOSARTAN; VALSARTAN;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 33846445268     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000253034.35704.92     Document Type: Short Survey

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