Heart Failure Prevention Is the Best Option To Stem High Costs and Disease Burden
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Heart failure prevention is the best option to stem high costs and disease burden: research for more effective heart failure treatment is needed.
In this issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Okin and colleagues1 report on the incidence of heart failure in a cohort of patients with hypertension enrolled in the Losartan Intervention for End Point Reduction in Hypertension (LIFE) study. This study, an international randomized trial, demonstrated that losartan, when compared with atenolol, provided superior reduction of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1941-7713,1941-7705
DOI: 10.1161/circoutcomes.111.960641