Hypertension Drug Combination Yields High Rate Of Blood Pressure Control In Hard-To-Treat Patients

A multi-center chamber of a capsule that combine two drugs in favour of hypertension show key improvement for bunting town attach by hard-to-control elevated blood constraint. The study, conduct at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and 118 other site, be beyond question via the agitate of transport downstairs systolic blood pressure, the covering digit internal a blood pressure reading, which be the more sober numeral to bring down. The grades of the study, call the INCLUSIVE nightmare, will be presented at the American Society for Hypertension huddle in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 17, 2005.

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"This was the pilot large-scale hypertension study to entangle such a chunky continuum of lenient grouping," says Dr. Saunders. "We found that this combination therapy reduced systolic blood pressure to a activist horizontal in 77 percent of the patients, and 83 percent of the patients in our study finish an pleasing diastolic blood pressure. These results be significant," he add.

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