Open AccessResults of the ALLHAT Trial: Is the Debate About Initial Antihypertensive Drug Therapy Over?
Author(s) -
Moser Marvin
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the journal of clinical hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1751-7176
pISSN - 1524-6175
DOI - 10.1111/j.1524-6175.2003.02259.x
Subject(s) - medicine , antihypertensive drug , intensive care medicine , blood pressure
Results of the ALLHAT study have focused attention on the preferred approaches to the management of hypertension. Some of the conclusions of this trial have already been questioned. In this issue of The JCH, Marvin Moser, MD, and Michael A. Weber, MD, two of the senior editors, present their critiques of the ALLHAT results.