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Article: Clinical Briefs: Doxazosin; Colorectal Cancer Screening; Estrogen Replacement.
- Article from:
- Internal Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- September 29, 2001
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Clinical Briefs
By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Doxazosin Added to Single-Drug Therapy in Hypertensive Patients with Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
In middle age and beyond, both hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) become increasingly common. Treatment of normotensive BPH patients can usually be accomplished using alpha-blockers without problematic episodes of hypotension. For hypertensive BPH patients, there has been some concern that addition of doxazosin to the antihypertensive regimen might produce hypotension or other untoward effects. This study evaluated the effect of 2-4 mg QD doxazosin added to the regimen of patients who had a ...