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Debate: does it matter how you lower blood pressure?

Overview of attention for article published in Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine, March 2001
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Title
Debate: does it matter how you lower blood pressure?
Published in
Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine, March 2001
DOI 10.1186/cvm-2-2-063
Pubmed ID
11806774
Authors

Gordon T McInnes

Abstract

The evidence base for drug treatment of hypertension is strong. Early trials using thiazide diuretics suggested a shortfall in prevention of coronary heart disease. The superiority of newer drugs has been widely advocated but trial evidence does not support an advantage of beta-blockers, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, calcium channel blockers or alpha-blockers for this outcome. Even meta-analyses have failed to clarify matters. If this issue is to be settled, bigger and better trials of longer duration in high-risk patients are needed. Meanwhile, the importance of rigorous blood pressure control using multiple drugs has been established. This should be the focus of our attention rather than agonising over differences in cause-specific outcomes that may not be generalisable to all patient populations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 1 17%
Unknown 5 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 33%
Other 2 33%
Student > Master 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 50%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 November 2016.
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#7,550,194
of 23,033,713 outputs
Outputs from Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine
#13
of 27 outputs
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#13,221
of 40,702 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine
#1
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