TIME LINE OF HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION TREATMENT

It is surprising that only about 50 years ago hypertension was considered an essential malady and not a treatable condition. Introduction of thiazide diuretics in late 50’s made some headway in successful treatment of hypertension and ambitious multicenter VA co-operative study (phase 1 and 2 ) star...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Golam Saklayen, Neeraj V Deshpande
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcvm.2016.00003/full