Blood pressure control and primary prevention of stroke: Summary of the recent clinical trial data and meta-analyses

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 559-574

  Gaciong, Zbigniew ^a   Siński, Maciej ^a   Lewandowski, Jacek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ambulatory, ambulatory blood pressure measurement; Antihypertensive, antihypertensive treatment; Blood, blood pressure; Blood, blood pressure variability; Circadian, circadian rhythm; Hypertension; Meta, meta analysis; Morning, morning surge; Non, non dipping; Randomized, randomized clinical trial; Risk, risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CANDESARTAN; DILTIAZEM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOXAZOSIN; HYDRALAZINE; INDAPAMIDE PLUS PERINDOPRIL; PERINDOPRIL; PLACEBO; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BLOOD PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONOTHERAPY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIPPING STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MASKED HYPERTENSION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORNING SURGE; MORTALITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK REDUCTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; STROKE;

EID: 84890121739     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-013-0401-0     Document Type: Article

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