Pharmacotherapy for the secondary prevention of stroke

Drugs

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 633-647

  Toyoda, Kazunori ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID PLUS DIPYRIDAMOLE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; CILOSTAZOL; CLOPIDOGREL; EPROSARTAN; INDAPAMIDE PLUS PERINDOPRIL; NITRENDIPINE; PERINDOPRIL; PIOGLITAZONE; PLACEBO; SIMVASTATIN; TELMISARTAN; TRIFLUSAL; WARFARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY DISEASE; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STROKE;

EID: 66049146981     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 00126667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200969060-00001     Document Type: Review

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