Blood Pressure Response Under Chronic Antihypertensive Drug Therapy. The Role of Aortic Stiffness in the REASON (Preterax in Regression of Arterial Stiffness in a Controlled Double-Blind) Study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 445-451

  Protogerou, Athanase ^a   Blacher, Jacques ^b   Stergiou, George S ^a   Achimastos, Apostolos ^a   Safar, Michel E ^b  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

antihypertensive therapy; arterial stiffness; pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; INDAPAMIDE PLUS PERINDOPRIL;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTIC DISEASES; ATENOLOL; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDAPAMIDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERINDOPRIL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58649087166     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.09.046     Document Type: Article

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