title: Modification of high blood pressure after myocardial infarction.
abstract: The treatment of high blood pressure (BP) after myocardial infarction is extremely important to decrease reinfarction and mortality. BP should be controlled more strictly in this high-risk hypertensive population. Recently, many clinical trials have demonstrated the benefits of lifestyle modification and antihypertensive agents, particularly beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. Treatment with these agents that modify BP may benefit even normotensive patients after a myocardial infarction, although the benefit is greater in hypertensives.
authors.affiliation: Hypertension Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell University Medical College, New York, USA. kak2012@mail.med.cornell.edu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kario
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Pickering
mesh_terms: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents