Pharmaceuticals 2011, 4(1), 1-6; doi:10.3390/ph4010001
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Blood Pressure-Lowering Aspects of Lipid-Lowering and Anti-Diabetic Drugs

Peter M. Nilsson 1,* email and Renata Cifkova 2
1 Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden 2 Department of Preventive Cardiology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 20 December 2010 / Accepted: 22 December 2010 / Published: 23 December 2010
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antihypertensive Drugs)
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Abstract: Several studies have shown that blood pressure can be lowered by the use of drugs that are not traditional antihypertensive drugs. This might be of clinical importance when many risk patients are treated by combination drug therapy in order to prevent cardiovascular disease by way of improving the cardiovascular risk factor profile.
Keywords: blood pressure; glitazone; metformin; orlistat; rimonabant; sibutramine; sitagliptin; statin

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Nilsson, Peter M.; Cifkova, Renata. 2011. "Blood Pressure-Lowering Aspects of Lipid-Lowering and Anti-Diabetic Drugs." Pharmaceuticals 4, no. 1: 1-6.

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