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Robert Fagard
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications - 788
Citations - 109235
Robert Fagard is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blood pressure & Ambulatory blood pressure. The author has an hindex of 114, co-authored 787 publications receiving 104613 citations.
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Prognostic Significance of Renal Function in Elderly Patients with Isolated Systolic Hypertension: Results from the Syst-Eur Trial
Peter W. de Leeuw,Lutgarde Thijs,Willem H. Birkenhäger,Sophia M Voyaki,Aris D. Efstratopoulos,Robert Fagard,Gastone Leonetti,C Nachev,J C Petrie,Jose L. Rodicio,Joseph J Rosenfeld,Cinzia Sarti,Jan A. Staessen +12 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that higher levels of serum creatinine and trace or overt proteinuria are associated with an increased number of cardiovascular events and with a higher mortality in patients with isolated systolic hypertension.
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GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE DURING DIURETIC THERAPY: Results of Trial by the European Working Party on Hypertension in the Elderly
A Amery,C. J. Bulpitt,A.F. De Schaepdryver,Robert Fagard,J Hellemans,Mutsers A,Berthaux P,Deruyttere M,Colin T. Dollery,Françoise Forette,P. Lund-Johansen,J. Tuomilehto +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, 119 elderly, hypertensive patients were followed-up for 1 year and 48 for 2 years in a double-blind, randomised, controlled trial in which they received either placebo or 25-50 mg hydrochlorothiazide and 50-100 mg of triamterene daily.
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A meta-analysis of outcome trials in elderly hypertensives.
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Effects of telmisartan, irbesartan, valsartan, candesartan, and losartan on cancers in 15 trials enrolling 138 769 individuals The ARB Trialists Collaboration
Koon K. Teo,Peter Sleight,Peggy Gao,Salim Yusuf,Stuart J. Connolly,Karl Swedberg,Marc A. Pfeffer,Christopher B. Granger,John J.V. McMurray,Anne K. Sjoelie,Barry M. Massie,Peter E. Carson,Julia B. Lewis,Kristian Wachtell,Björn Dahlöf,Richard B. Devereux,Sverre E. Kjeldsen,Stevo Julius,Hans Ibsen,Lars H Lindholm,Michael H. Olsen,Peter M. Okin,Robert M. Califf,Rury R. Holman,Steven M. Haffner,Gilles R. Dagenais,Jeffrey L. Probstfield,Craig S. Anderson,Rafael Diaz,Antonio L. Dans,Mark Levine,Thomas Unger,Robert Fagard,Hans-Christoph Diener,Ralph L. Sacco,Alberto Zanchetti,Jay N. Cohn,Marc Weber +37 more
TL;DR: There was no significant increase in the overall or site-specific cancer risk from ARBs compared to controls, and there was no excess of lung, prostate or breast cancer, or overall cancer deaths associated with ARB treatment.
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Prediction of the actual awake and asleep blood pressures by various methods of 24 h pressure analysis.
TL;DR: Clock time-independent methods, particularly square-wave fitting, can predict the actual awake and asleep blood pressures and the awake-asleep pressure differences with reasonable accuracy and the results are independent of the awake/asleep pattern of the subjects.