Chronobiology in cardiovascular disease. Proceedings from the European Society of Cardiology.
Clinical research in the field of cardiovascular chronobiology has been quite productive during the past decade and results have stimulated new areas of investigation in a field of clinical pharmacology known as chronotherapeutics. Chronotherapeutics is a term that has been used when the delivery of a drug is linked to known biologic rhythms in a disease state. This approach is relatively new to practicing phyusicians in that conventional wisdom has been to administer drugs in a homeostatic fashion.
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Section of Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
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