Clinical trials in hypertension
By: edited by Henry R. Black.
Contributors: Black, Henry R. 1942-
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 659
Subjects: Hypertension -- drug therapy; Antihypertensive Agents -- therapeutic use; Clinical Trials as Topic -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Veterans Administration Cooperative Study on Antihypertensive Drugs; title: The treatment of mild essential hypertension: The U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals Clinical Trial; title: The Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program; title: The Australian National Blood Pressure Study 1973-1979 / Ralph Reader; title: The MRC Trial of Treatment in Mild Hypertension; title: Beta-blockers versus diuretics in hypertensive men: The HAPPHY Trial; title: Metoprolol versus thiazide diuretics in hypertension: results from the MAPHY Study in perspective; title: The European Working Party on High Blood Pressure in the Elderly (EWPHE) Trial; title: The Swedish Trial in Old Patients with Hypertension (STOP-Hypertension); title: Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program (SHEP): the first demonstration that lowering systolic hypertension reduced total stroke and all coronary heart disease; title: Medical Research Council Trial of Treatment of Hypertension in Older Adults; title: The Treatment of Mild Hypertension Study (TOMHS): design and additional analyses; title: Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study on Monotherapy of Hypertension; title: The Systolic Hypertension in Europe Trial; title: Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) Study; title: Beta-blocker Heart Attack Trial; title: Effect of enalapril on morbid and mortal events among SOLVD participants with hypertension; title: Captopril in Type 1 Diabetic Nephropathy; title: Attenuation of ventricular enlargement: The SAVE study; title: STOP-Hypertensio-2: The Swedish Trial in Old Patients with Hypertension-2; title: The Controlled ONset Verapamil INvestigation of Cardiovascular Endpoints (CONVINCE) Trial; title: Rationale and design for the Antihypertensive and Lipid-lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT); title: The 2nd Australian National Blood Pressure Study (ANBP2); title: Losartan Intervention for Endpoint Reduction in Hypertension: The LIFE Study; title: Prospective collaborative overviews of major randomized trials of blood-pressure-lowering treatments.