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- Title
Treatment for mild hypertension is ineffective.
- Abstract
The article discusses a research which demonstrates the inefficiency of treating mild hypertension in patients without cardiovascular disease. The research, entitled "Pharmacotherapy for mild hypertension" that was published in the August 15, 2012 issue of "Cochrane Database Set," featured meta-analysis or randomised controlled trials. It is inferred that the treatment failed to reduce mortality, coronary heart disease, stroke or total cardiovascular evetns.
- Subjects
MILD hypertension; CARDIOVASCULAR disease treatment; DRUG therapy; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; TREATMENT effectiveness; THERAPEUTICS; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; MEDICAL databases; META-analysis
- Publication
Prescriber, 2013, Vol 24, Issue 3, p22
- ISSN
0959-6682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/psb.1010