Choice of ACE inhibitor combinations in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes: Update after recent clinical trials

Vascular Health and Risk Management

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 411-427

  Reboldi, Gianpaolo ^a   Gentile, Giorgio ^a   Angeli, Fabio ^b   Verdecchia, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

ACE inhibit; Blood pressure; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; AMLODIPINE PLUS BENAZEPRIL; BENAZEPRIL; BENIDIPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CANDESARTAN; CAPTOPRIL; CHLORTALIDONE; DELAPRIL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; FELODIPINE; FOSINOPRIL; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; INDAPAMIDE; INDAPAMIDE PLUS PERINDOPRIL; IRBESARTAN; ISRADIPINE; LISINOPRIL; MANIDIPINE; NIFEDIPINE; OLMESARTAN; PLACEBO; QUINAPRIL; TELMISARTAN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL; ZOFENOPRIL; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COUGHING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POLYURIA; PROTEINURIA; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; DIURETICS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67449100771     PISSN: 11766344     EISSN: 11782048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/vhrm.s4235     Document Type: Review

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