Pharmacological treatment of vascular risk factors for reducing mortality and cardiovascular events in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Robertson, Lindsay ^a   Atallah, Edmond ^b   Stansby, Gerard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 85009414662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010447     Document Type: Article

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