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Treatment of heart failure with ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers

What is next? AT1-receptor antagonists?

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Hoppe, U.C. Treatment of heart failure with ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers. Clin Res Cardiol 96, 196–198 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-007-0488-x

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