Device-Based Antihypertensive Therapy
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Device-based antihypertensive therapy: therapeutic modulation of the autonomic nervous system.
Systemic hypertension represents a major cardiovascular epidemic in the developed and developing world. Projections to 2025 suggest that up to 50% of the adult populations of Western countries will meet standard guideline definitions of hypertension1 and thus will require therapeutic interventions, either nonpharmacological or pharmacological. Hypertension is also a component of many other majo...
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Effective antihypertonsive drug therapy began with the ganglion-blocking agents, followed by reserpine and hydralarine. later advances included the benzothiadiazine saluretic agents and more recently compounds which specifically inhibit the sympathetic nervous system, such as guanethidine, alpha-methyldopa, and certain amine oxidase inhibitors. Among the antihypertensive drugs, molecular modifi...
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Hypertension continues to be a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality, fuelled by an abundance of patients with uncontrolled blood pressure despite the multitude of pharmacological options available. This may occur as a consequence of true resistant hypertension, through an inability to tolerate current pharmacological therapies, or non-adherence to antihypertensive medication. In ...
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US Office-Based Physicians To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Nelson and Knapp1 on the trends of antihypertensive therapy by US office-based physicians. Their findings are clearly significant, but some of their conclusions are not supported by the data presented. The authors state that “physician antihypertensive drug prescribing was generally consistent with the basic an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.110.971580