Open AccessTrends in Antihypertensive Drug Therapy by US Office-Based Physicians
Author(s) -
E. Andrew Balas
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.986
H-Index - 265
eISSN - 1524-4563
pISSN - 0194-911X
DOI - 10.1161/01.hyp.37.5.e12
Subject(s) - antihypertensive drug , medicine , drug , pharmacotherapy , pharmacology , intensive care medicine , blood pressure
To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Nelson and Knapp1 on the trends of antihypertensive therapy by US office-based physicians. Their findings are clearly significant, but some of their conclusions are not supported by the data presented. The authors state that “physician antihypertensive drug prescribing was generally consistent with the basic antihypertensive drug guidelines of the JNC …
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