PMID: 2481175Jan 1, 1987Paper

Factors influencing treatment of hypertension.

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
J I Robertson

Abstract

While treatment of hypertension has been effective in preventing stroke, the malignant phase, cardiac failure, and renal impairment, it has been less useful in limiting coronary artery disease and its consequences. Hopes that the increasing use of beta-blockers in the prophylactic treatment of hypertension might have an impact on hypertension-related coronary events have been only in part realised. Some of the possible reasons and prospects for the future are considered.

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