Therapeutic drug monitoring facilitates blood pressure control in resistant hypertension

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 834-835

  Brinker, Stephanie ^a   Pandey, Ambarish ^b   Ayers, Colby ^a   Price, Angela ^a   Raheja, Prafull ^a   Arbique, Debbie ^a   Das, Sandeep R ^a   Halm, Ethan A ^b   Kaplan, Norman M ^a   Vongpatanasin, Wanpen ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AMNESIA; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MONITORING; FATIGUE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANT HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AGE DISTRIBUTION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84896712257     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.10.067     Document Type: Letter

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