Evaluating the benefits of an antihypertensive agent using t... : Journal of Hypertension
Evaluating the benefits of an antihypertensive agent using trials based on event and organ …

Summary Abstract Lacidipine (Caldine®, Lacimen®, Lacipil®, Midotens®, Motens®) is a
once-daily, orally-administered, lipophilic dihydropyridine calcium antagonist with an …

Objective: The aim was to review the clinical safety profile of lacidipine with the help of the
rather comprehensive datafile of the manufacturer-a novel approach which may be of some …

Isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) is a definite risk factor for cardiovascular complications
(ie, cardiac failure, coronary artery disease, and stroke) independent of diastolic elevation …

More than 50% of hypertensive patients are aged above 65 years. Physiopathology of
essential hypertension is different in the elderly as compared with the young adult …

In a large, open, multicenter study, 2,206 outpatients with mild-to-moderate essential
hypertension were recruited by 755 cardiologists throughout France. Patients received …

Objective We reviewed the clinical safety profile of lacidipine with the help of the rather
comprehensive data file of the manufacturer. Although a number of prospective, randomly …

The evaluation of haemodynamic patterns in hypertensive patients by radionuclide
techniques and a tomographic gamma camera has revealed differences between older and …

Elderly patients are becoming a greater proportion of the hypertensive population. In
addition, they may respond differently to drugs, both pharmacodynam-ically and …

Recent publications purporting to show that calcium antagonists, when used for the
treatment of hypertension or in the post myocardial infarction patient, would paradoxically …