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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-converting enzyme inhibitors and angioedema: estimating the risk.

TL;DR: The article by Miller et al in this issue of Hypertension represents a careful effort to estimate the frequency of this event in contemporary clinical practice, and one of the chief attributes of the ACE inhibitors has been their overall tolerability.
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Guidelines for treatment of hypertension in the elderly--2002 revised version.

TL;DR: Ogihara et al. as mentioned in this paper reported that the pathophysiology of hypertension in the elderly is characterized by increased total peripheral vascular resistance, decreased compliance of large and middle arteries, a tendency toward decrease in cardiac output and circulating blood volume, increased lability of blood pressure due to age-related decrease in baroreceptor function, decreased blood flow, and dysfunction of autoregulation in important target-organs such as the brain, heart, and kidney.
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Verapamil-sustained release-based treatment strategy is equivalent to atenolol-based treatment strategy at reducing cardiovascular events in patients with prior myocardial infarction: an INternational VErapamil SR-Trandolapril (INVEST) substudy.

TL;DR: In hypertensive patients with prior MI, a verapamil-SR- based strategy was equivalent to a beta-blocker-based strategy for blood pressure control and prevention of cardiovascular events, with greater subjective feeling of well-being and a trend toward lower incidence of angina pectoris and stroke in the verap amil- SR-based group.
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Thiazide-Type Diuretics and β-Adrenergic Blockers as First-Line Drug Treatments for Hypertension

TL;DR: Evidence from 4 decades of randomized multicenter clinical trials evaluating effects of treatment on clinical CVD events provided a basis for recommending thiazides or β-blockers as first-step drugs in most editions of US guidelines through 1997, and needs to continue to be given due weight in practice and practice guidelines.
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Are There Effects of Renin–Angiotensin System Antagonists Beyond Blood Pressure Control?

TL;DR: A body of evidence indicates that the clinical benefits of ARBs and ACE inhibitors in patients with advanced nephropathy extend beyond blood pressure reduction, and consideration should be given to the effects of an agent that extend beyondBlood pressure.
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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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