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Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension study (LIFE): a randomised trial against atenolol.

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Losartan prevents more cardiovascular morbidity and death than atenolol for a similar reduction in blood pressure and is better tolerated, while new-onset diabetes was less frequent with losartan.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2002-03-23. It has received 5380 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Angiotensin II & Atenolol.

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Angiotensin II Induces Angiogenesis in the Hypoxic Adult Mouse Heart In Vitro Through an AT2-B2 Receptor Pathway

TL;DR: This in vitro study suggests the obligatory role of hypoxia in the angiogenic effect of angiotensin II in the mouse heart via the AT2 receptor through a mechanism that involves bradykinin, its B2 receptor, and NO as a downstream effector.
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Role of angiotensin receptor blockers as monotherapy in reaching blood pressure goals.

TL;DR: A secondary analysis of BP efficacy data from a published study that directly compared recommended starting doses of four currently marketed ARB was performed and showed that the percentage of patients achieving the combined SBP/DBP goal rate of <140/90 mm Hg was highest with olmesartan medoxomil.
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First-line drugs inhibiting the renin angiotensin system versus other first-line antihypertensive drug classes for hypertension

TL;DR: Imbalances in the added second-line antihypertensive drugs in some of the studies were important enough for us to downgrade the quality of the evidence, and the results for ESRF do not exclude potentially important differences.
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Angiotensin II receptor blockers and myocardial infarction: deeds and misdeeds.

TL;DR: There is no evidence of increased risk of myocardial infarction in patients treated with ARBs, according to a more comprehensive and updated meta-analysis taking into account all major international, randomized trials using ARBs compared with another active drug or conventional therapy (placebo), and reporting information on rates of my Cardiac Infarction.
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Insulin resistance, diabetes and cardiovascular risk: approaches to treatment.

TL;DR: The prevalence of diabetes is increasing worldwide and Insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus are major predictors of cardiovascular ischaemic disease and their roles are continually being researched and discovered.
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Effects of an angiotensin-converting -enzyme inhibitor, ramipril, on cardiovascular events in high-risk patients

TL;DR: Ramipril significantly reduces the rates of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in a broad range of high-risk patients who are not known to have a low ejection fraction or heart failure.
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Effect of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibition compared with conventional therapy on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in hypertension: the Captopril Prevention Project (CAPPP) randomised trial

TL;DR: Captopril and conventional treatment did not differ in efficacy in preventing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and the difference in stroke risk was probably due to the lower levels of blood pressure obtained initially in previously treated patients randomised to conventional therapy.
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An updated coronary risk profile. A statement for health professionals.

TL;DR: Using a simple worksheet, a patient's 5- and 10-year CHD risks can be estimated using components of the profile selected because they are objective and strongly and independently related to CHD.
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Effects of ACE inhibitors, calcium antagonists, and other blood-pressure-lowering drugs: results of prospectively designed overviews of randomised trials. Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration

TL;DR: Strong evidence of benefits of ACE inhibitors and calcium antagonists is provided by the overviews of placebo-controlled trials, and data from continuing trials of blood-pressure-lowering drugs will substantially increase the evidence available about any real differences that might exist between regimens.
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