Antihypertensive treatment using an angiotensin receptor blocker and a thiazide diuretic improves patients quality of life: The Saga Challenge Antihypertensive Study (S-CATS)

Hypertension Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1288-1294

  Kamura, Aoi ^a   Inoue, Teruo ^b   Kuroki, Shigetaka ^c   Ishida, Shiro ^c   Iimori, Kenichirou ^c   Kato, Toru ^d   Naitoh, Hirofumi ^c   Tamesue, Satoshi ^c   Ikeda, Hideo ^c   Node, Koichi ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Saga Medical Association   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

angiotensin receptor blocker; combination pill; quality of life; thiazide

Indexed keywords

HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; LOSARTAN;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIURETICS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; LOSARTAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP;

EID: 82955195067     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2011.126     Document Type: Article

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