Carvedilol Reduces Aortic Wave Reflection and Improves Left Ventricular/Vascular Coupling: A Comparison With Atenolol (CENTRAL Study)

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 917-924

  Shah, Niren K ^a   Smith, Steven M ^b   Nichols, Wilmer W ^c   Lo, Margaret C ^c   Ashfaq, Umna ^c   Satish, Priya ^c   Johnson, Julie A ^c,d   Epstein, Benjamin J ^c,d  

^a East Coast Institute for Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; CARVEDILOL;

ADULT; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTA; ATENOLOL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARBAZOLES; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPANOLAMINES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 83055180598     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2011.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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