Initial combination therapy compared with monotherapy in diabetic hypertensive patients

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 668-676

  Sowers, James R ^a,c   Lastra, Guido ^a   Rocha, Ricardo ^b   Seifu, Yodit ^b   Crikelair, Nora ^b   Levy, Drew G ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; VALSARTAN; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIURETIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TETRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; VALINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BACKACHE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC HYPERTENSION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINUSITIS; SORE THROAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG COMBINATION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIURETICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TETRAZOLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALINE;

EID: 58249091921     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2008.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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