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The potential savings of using thiazides as the first choice antihypertensive drug: cost-minimisation analysis
BACKGROUND: All clinical practice guidelines recommend thiazides as a first-choice drug for the management of uncomplicated hypertension. Thiazides are also the lowest priced antihypertensive drugs. Despite this, the use of thiazides is much lower than that of other drug-classes. We wanted to estima...
Autores principales: | Fretheim, Atle, Aaserud, Morten, Oxman, Andrew D |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2003
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC201005/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12959644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-3-18 |
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