Patterns of antihypertensive treatment in patients with acute severe hypertension from a nonneurologic cause: Studying the Treatment of Acute Hypertension (STAT) Registry

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1087-1096

  Devlin, John W ^a   Dasta, Joseph F ^b   Kleinschmidt, Kurt ^c   Roberts, Russel J ^d   Lapointe, Marc ^e   Varon, Joseph ^f   Anderson, Frederick A ^g   Wyman, Allison ^g   Granger, Christopher B ^h  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antihypertensive drugs; Hydralazine; Hypertensive crisis; Labetalol; Metoprolol; Nicardipine; Nitroglycerin; Practice patterns; Severe hypertension; Sodium nitroprusside

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; DILTIAZEM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; ESMOLOL; FENOLDOPAM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDRALAZINE; LABETALOL; METOPROLOL; MINOXIDIL; NICARDIPINE; NITRATE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENTOLAMINE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE REGISTRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149399201     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.30.11.1087     Document Type: Article

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