New or developing antihypertensive agents.
Although significant pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic advances in treating hypertension during the last decade have reduced mortality and morbidity, hypertension continues to be a major health concern worldwide. Therefore, the search continues for newer specific pharmacologic treatment of this disorder. This review focuses on pharmacologic agents or classes of agents either recently approved or under clinical development for the treatment of hypertension.
Evans
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RR
College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.
DiPette
D J
DJ
D000818:Animals; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000145:classification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002309:Cardiology / Q000639:trends; D015507:Drugs, Investigational / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D015507:Drugs, Investigational