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Popular hypertension drugs linked to worse heart health in blacks compared to whites
... The study, published on September 15 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), is unique, the authors say, in that it evaluates racial differences in cardiovascular outcomes and mortality between hypertensive black and white patients whose treatment was initiated with angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, outside of a clinical trial. ACE inhibitors are one of several classes of drugs commonly prescribed to individuals with hypertension to prevent deaths, heart attack, kidney failure, heart failure and stroke ...
Heart diagram. Credit: Wikipedia
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-popular-hypertension-drugs-linked-worse.html
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Popular hypertension drugs linked to worse heart health in blacks compared to whites
... The study, published on September 15 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), is unique, the authors say, in that it evaluates racial differences in cardiovascular outcomes and mortality between hypertensive black and white patients whose treatment was initiated with angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, outside of a clinical trial. ACE inhibitors are one of several classes of drugs commonly prescribed to individuals with hypertension to prevent deaths, heart attack, kidney failure, heart failure and stroke ...
Heart diagram. Credit: Wikipedia
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-popular-hypertension-drugs-linked-worse.html
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