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Informationen zum Autor Dr Jeffrey K. Aronson is a consultant clinical pharmacologist and physician in the Department of Primary Health Care in the University of Oxford and a consultant physician in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust. He has been associated with the Meyler series since 1977 and has published many research papers on adverse drug reactions. He is President of the British Pharmacological Society and serves on many committees concerned with drug therapy, including the Technology Appraisal Committee of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Joint Formulary Committees of the British National Formulary and the British National Formulary for Children. Klappentext Elsevier now offers a series of derivative works based on the acclaimed Meyler's Side Effect of Drugs! 15th Edition. These individual volumes are grouped by specialty to benefit the practicing biomedical researcher and/or clinician. Each year! heart disease kills more Americans than cancer. In the clinical setting! patients are treated by a variety of specialists and primary care practitioners! depending on the organ system involved. This volume will enable practitioners to prescribe preventative treatments with medications such as blood pressure reducers! aspirin! and cholesterol-lowering drugs! as well as drugs used for more aggressive therapy. Zusammenfassung Enables practitioners to assess the adverse effects of the complete range of drugs used in cardiovascular medicine! including antihypertensive drugs! and drugs used in the treatment of heart failure! angina! angina pectoris! and cardiac arrhythmia and enable practitioners to prescribe preventative treatments with medications.
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Preface Drugs used to treat hypertension, heart failure, and angina pectoris DiureticsAntidysrhythmic drugs Drugs that act on the cerebral and peripheral arterial and venous circulations Anticoagulants, thrombolytic agents, and anti-platelet drugs Adverse cardiovascular effects of non-cardiovascular drugs Index of drug names