Blood pressure-lowering treatment for the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation: An individual participant data meta-analysis.

Blood pressure-lowering treatment for the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation: An individual participant data meta-analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>Randomised evidence on the efficacy of blood pressure (BP)-lowering treatment to reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is limited. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effects of BP-lowering drugs in patients with and without AF at...

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Main Authors: Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, Luis Azevedo, Emma Copland, Dexter Canoy, Milad Nazarzadeh, Rema Ramakrishnan, Eivind Berge, Johan Sundström, Dipak Kotecha, Mark Woodward, Koon Teo, Barry R Davis, John Chalmers, Carl J Pepine, Kazem Rahimi, Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-06-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003599

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003599

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