Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 57, Issue 1 , Pages 64-65 , January 2011

Does Antihypertensive Drug Therapy Decrease Morbidity or Mortality in Patients With a Hypertensive Emergency?

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  1. Wright JM, Musini VM. First-line drugs for hypertension. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009;a(3):CD001841
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  4. Perez MI, Musini VM, Wright JM. Effect of early treatment with anti- hypertensive drugs on short and long-term mortality in patients with an acute cardiovascular event. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2009;(4):CD006743

 An installment of the Systematic Review Abstract series:

 This is a systematic review abstract, a regular feature of the Annals' Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine (EBEM) series. Each features an abstract of a systematic review from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and a commentary by an emergency physician knowledgeable in the subject area. The source for this systematic review abstract is: Perez MI, Musini VM, Wright JM. Pharmacological interventions for hypertensive emergencies. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009;(1):CD003653. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003653.pub3. The Annals' EBEM editors assisted in the preparation of the abstract of this Cochrane systematic review.

PII: S0196-0644(10)00493-2

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.05.021

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 57, Issue 1 , Pages 64-65 , January 2011

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