Escalating antihypertensive medications in end-stage renal disease patients does not improve blood pressure control

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-218

  Tapolyai, Mihály ^a   Karim, Jariatul ^a   Fakhruddin, Atif ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENAL; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 43549114290     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2008.07198.x     Document Type: Article

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