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Add-on-Statin Extended Release Nicotinic Acid/Laropiprant but Not the Switch to High-Dose Rosuvastatin Lowers Blood Pressure: An Open-Label Randomized Study

Introduction. Nicotinic acid (NA) and statins have been associated with reductions in blood pressure (BP). Patients and Methods. We recruited 68 normotensive and hypertensive dyslipidemic patients who were treated with a conventional statin dose and had not achieved lipid targets. Patients were rand...

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Autores principales: Kei, Anastazia, Elisaf, Moses, Moutzouri, Elisavet, Tsiara, Stavroula, Liberopoulos, Evangelos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747984
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/830434