Journal article
Effects of ACE inhibitors, calcium antagonists, and other blood-pressure-lowering drugs: results of prospectively designed overviews of randomised trials
Abstract
BACKGROUND: This programme of overviews of randomised trials was established to investigate the effects of angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, calcium antagonists, and other blood-pressure-lowering drugs on mortality and major cardiovascular morbidity in several populations of patients. We did separate overviews of trials comparing active treatment regimens with placebo, trials comparing more intensive and less intensive …
Authors
Neal B; MacMahon S; Chapman N
Journal
The Lancet, Vol. 356, No. 9246, pp. 1955–1964
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
12 2000
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(00)03307-9
ISSN
0140-6736