and by the class of antihypertensive drug prescribed at enrollment ( Table IV). Patients who were given an AIIA as the first-line class showed a greater tendency to stay on antihypertensive ...

Hypertension (high blood pressure) affects an estimated 1 billion people worldwide and approximately 65 million people in the US alone. If not treated effectively, this common disorder can lead to ...

Risk reductions with this drug class were even greater with prolonged ... including its size and the number of classes of antihypertensive agents separately evaluated, clearly surpasses past ...

Moreover, the blood pressure (BP)-lowering effects of various antihypertensive drugs may be different in patients with OSA due to these underlying mechanisms, said Yi-Hui Ou, PhD, of the National ...

Most patients took a single antihypertensive; 37% took two or more drugs. Unadjusted findings suggested ... The proportion of patients on each class in the epilepsy versus no-epilepsy groups ...