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Genetically determined blood pressure, antihypertensive drug classes, and risk of stroke subtypes

Neurology, 2020
Objective We employed Mendelian randomization to explore whether the effects of blood pressure (BP) and BP-lowering through different antihypertensive drug classes on stroke risk vary by stroke etiology.
Marios K. Georgakis, D. Gill, A. Webb, E. Evangelou, P. Elliott, C. Sudlow, A. Dehghan, R. Malik, I. Tzoulaki, M. Dichgans   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preadmission Antihypertensive Drug Use and Sepsis Outcome: Impact of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs) and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs).

Shock, 2020
BACKGROUND Several studies have reported improved sepsis outcomes when certain preadmission antihypertensive drugs, namely, calcium channel blockers (CCBs), are used. This study aims to determine whether preadmission antihypertensive drug use, especially
Ming-Shun Hsieh, Chorng-Kuang How, V. C. Hsieh, Pau-Chung Chen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Antihypertensive drug use and prostate cancer-specific mortality in Finnish men

PLoS ONE, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate pre- and post-diagnostic use of antihypertensive drugs on prostate cancer (PCa)-specific survival and the initiation of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).
A. Siltari, T. Murtola, K. Talala, K. Taari, T. Tammela, A. Auvinen   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical Applicability of Monitoring Antihypertensive Drug Levels in Blood

HYPERTENSION, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Dried blood spot (DBS) analysis is a novel analytical method for therapeutic drug monitoring to identify nonadherence to antihypertensive drugs.
L. Peeters, L. Feyz, E. Boersma, J. Daemen, T. van Gelder, B. Koch, J. Versmissen   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effects of mandatory prescribing of thiazides for newly treated, uncomplicated hypertension: interrupted time-series analysis. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2007
BACKGROUND: The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effects of a new reimbursement rule for antihypertensive medication that made thiazides mandatory first-line drugs for newly treated, uncomplicated hypertension. The objective of the new regulation
Atle Fretheim, Kari Håvelsrud, Graeme MacLennan, Doris Tove Kristoffersen, Andrew D Oxman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the issue of low adherence of patients to antihypertensive therapy: the use of therapeutic drug monitoring of drugs: A review

Consilium Medicum, 2022
Low adherence of patients to antihypertensive therapy remains an urgent problem and is recognized as the main cause of insufficient BP control at the population level.
Marina V. Leonova
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluasi Kerasionalan Penggunaan Obat Antihipertensi Pada Pasien Hipertensi Rawat Inap RSUD H. Hanafie Muara Bungo

Indonesian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2022
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hypertension affects 22% of the world's population. Hypertension is also the cause of death with 23.7% of the total 1.7 million deaths in Indonesia in 2016. Based on the medical record sheet at H. Hanafie
Tri Wasilah, Rasmala Dewi, Deny Sutrisno
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns of antihypertensive prescribing, discontinuation and switching among a Hong Kong Chinese population from over one million prescriptions [PDF]

, 2008
Hypertension is an alarming public health problem among Chinese. The present study evaluated the prescribing patterns, discontinuation and switching profiles of antihypertensive agents and their associated factors in one Hong Kong Chinese population ...
A Fretheim, A T Lam, BM Cheung, G Onder, H Fung, H Mori, J Ma, J Y Jiang, M C S Wong, MCS Wong, S Griffiths, S W Mercer, T Walley, YH Yuen, Z Kabir   +14 more
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Whey-derived peptides interactions with ACE by molecular docking as a potential predictive tool of natural ACE inhibitors [PDF]

, 2020
Several milk/whey derived peptides possess high in vitro angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity. However, in some cases, poor correlation between the in vitro ACE inhibitory activity and the in vivo antihypertensive activity has been ...
Chamata, Yara, Jauregi, Paula, Watson, Kimberly A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Assessment of postoperative changes in antihypertensive drug consumption in patients with primary aldosteronism using the defined daily dose

Asian Journal of Surgery, 2014
Background: The number of antihypertensive drug classes cannot accurately reflect the total consumption of antihypertensive drugs used to control blood pressure.
Takanobu Utsumi, Koji Kawamura, Takashi Imamoto, Naoto Kamiya, Hidekazu Nagano, Tomoaki Tanaka, Naoki Nihei, Yukio Naya, Hiroyoshi Suzuki, Tomohiko Ichikawa   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source