Jul 26, 2021
MONDAY, July 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) For patients with hypertension initiating treatment, effectiveness is comparable for angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), but ARBs have a better safety profile, according to a study published online July 26 in
Hypertension.
RuiJun Chen, M.D., from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues compared the real-world effectiveness and safety of ACE inhibitors versus ARBs in first-line treatment of hypertension. All patients with hypertension initiating monotherapy with an ACE inhibitor or ARB between 1996 and 2018 from eight databases across the United States, Germany, and South Korea were included.
ARBs Preferable to ACE Inhibitors in Large Observational Hypertension Study
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Angiotensin receptor blockers may be preferable to ACE inhibitors due to safety profile
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