First-line treatment for hypertension

First-line treatment for hypertension

Published online 28 November 2001. Recent guidelines for hypertension management differ in their recommendations for routine firstline treatment for hypertension, as have previous generations of guidelines. For example, the United States JNC VI and British Hypertension Society guidelines both recommend low-dose diuretics and beta-blockers as first-line treatment unless there are compelling cont...

Thiazides first-line treatment for hypertension.

879 D la Chronique numéro 47, nous avons étudié les données scientifiques tirées de tous les essais contrôlés randomisés sur l’hypertension comparant les thiazidiqu de première intention avec les inhibiteurs de l’enzyme de conversion de l’angiotensine (IECA) et les inhibiteurs calciques (IC). Nous avons mis l’accent sur l’étude ALLHAT (traitement antihypertenseur et hypolipidémiant pour préveni...

First-line treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer.

Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a rapidly fatal disease with few therapeutic options. The authors summarize four abstracts (#148, #233, #158, #291) presented at the 2013 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium which were focused on novel agents for metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Cinacalcet as first-line treatment for calciphylaxis.

Trends in first-line therapy for hypertension in the Cardiovascular Research Network Hypertension Registry, 2002-2007.

S ince publication of the Antihypertensive and LipidLowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) (December 2002) and Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-7) (May 2003) guidelines, thiazide diuretics have been promoted as the preferred initial agents for hypertension treatment, especially among...