Does Antihypertensive Drug Therapy Decrease Morbidity or Mortality in Patients With a Hypertensive Emergency?

DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and references in review articles were searched. The authors also attempted to identify the grey literature by contacting trialists. STUDY SELECTION: Randomized controlled trials that enrolled patients with hypertensive emergencies in which a selected antihypertensive agent was compared with placebo, no treatment, or another drug in a different class. Fifteen …