Establishing a new option for target-organ protection: Rationale for ARB plus ACE inhibitor combination therapy

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 248-256

  Cohn, Jay N ^a   Goldman, Jesse M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ATENOLOL; CANDESARTAN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; IRBESARTAN; LISINOPRIL; LOSARTAN; PERINDOPRIL; RAMIPRIL; TELMISARTAN; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; TRANDOLAPRIL; VALSARTAN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INHIBITION KINETICS; KIDNEY DISEASE; MONOTHERAPY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; TARGET ORGAN; TITRIMETRY;

ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASES; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM;

EID: 40049112406     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2007.56     Document Type: Review

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