13 years after first being presented the results of the PRAISE-2 trial finally have been published in JACC: Heart Failure. The trial itself is now largely irrelevant to current clinical practice, as the hypothesis it tested has long been abandoned, but the long delay in publication may serve to bring even more awareness to the…
Faint PRAISE: 13 Year Delay In Publication Of A Major Clinical Trial Sparks Criticism
August 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Should Body Weight Influence Choice of Antihypertensive Therapy?
December 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
The hypertension field has been troubled by repeated observations that normal weight patients have more cardiovascular (CV) events than obese patients. Now a new analysis of a large hypertension trial confirms this finding but also suggests that it may be explained by either an adverse effect of diuretics or a protective effect of calcium-channel blockers in non-obese…
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