Antihypertensive Drugs: Praise and Restraint
- 20 January 1972
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 286 (3) , 155-156
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197201202860310
Abstract
Edward D. Freis was a happy choice for the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Research. He received the Award for directing the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study Group on Antihypertensive Agents, which demonstrated that the treatment of patients with moderate or severe essential hypertension with antihypertensive agents would reduce the incidence of deaths from strokes and congestive heart failure when the blood pressure was kept within normal limits. The study that prompted the award was the latest of many dealing with the drug therapy of hypertension that Dr. Freis has conducted over the past quarter century. His work has shown again . . .Keywords
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