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      Carvedilol in Hypertension

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      Cardiology
      S. Karger AG
      Ambulatory monitoring, Beta blockers, Hypertension

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          Abstract

          Ambulatory intra-arterial blood pressure recording provides a precise and objective method for the study of antihypertensive drugs and their effects on blood pressure. Application of this technique has shown that β-adrenoreceptor-blocking drugs are only effective during the day when the subject is active. They have little effect on the early-morning rise in blood pressure, which is the time of greatest sympathetic nervous activity. Addition of a diuretic to the beta blocker produces a uniform reduction in blood pressure, which is sustained throughout the 24-hour cycle. Carvedilol is a beta blocker with alpha-blocking activity and its profile of action is similar to that of a combination of a beta blocker and a diuretic. The possession of both properties in a single molecule is advantageous.

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          Journal
          CRD
          Cardiology
          10.1159/issn.0008-6312
          Cardiology
          S. Karger AG
          978-3-8055-5874-7
          978-3-318-01680-2
          0008-6312
          1421-9751
          1993
          1993
          14 November 2008
          : 82
          : Suppl 3
          : 40-44
          Affiliations
          Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middlesex, UK
          Article
          175933 Cardiology 1993;82:40–44
          10.1159/000175933
          8106164
          91fa4ecd-1af6-429d-900c-bdc20fa5f6a7
          © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          Page count
          Pages: 5
          Categories
          Session III: Carvedilol - Clinical Experience

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Beta blockers,Ambulatory monitoring,Hypertension

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