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Current assessment of the stepped-care treatment of mild hypertension: diuretics, beta-blockers, vasodilators versus clonidine

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The fairly conclusive demonstration by the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study Group on Antihypertensive Agents (1967) of the strikingly favourable effect of drug treatment on morbidity associated with untreated moderate-to-severe hypertension generated global interest. It suggested that physicians should be made more aware of effective regimens for antihypertensive therapy. A subsequent analysis of the results of the VA trial (Walker et al. 1982) indicated that the benefits of drug treatment, in terms of reducing mortality and morbidity, were, in gross terms, proportional to the therapeutic reduction of blood pressure.

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  1. Division of Hypertension Department of medicine, UCLA, San Fernando Valley Medical Center, 16111 Plummer Street, Sepulveda, California, 91343, USA

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  1. Hypertension Center, Veterans Administration Center, 5901 East 7th Street, 90822, Long Beach, California, USA

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  2. Medical Unit, St. Mary’ Hospital Medical School, Norfolk Place, W2 1PG, London, Great Britain

    C. J. Mathias M. B., B. S., D. Phil., M. R. C. P. (Senior Wellcome Fellow in Clinical Science, Honorary Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Medicine) (Senior Wellcome Fellow in Clinical Science, Honorary Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Medicine)

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Sambhi, M.P. (1984). Current assessment of the stepped-care treatment of mild hypertension: diuretics, beta-blockers, vasodilators versus clonidine. In: Weber, M.A., Mathias, C.J. (eds) Mild Hypertension. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85334-0_9

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