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Article: ACE inhibitor and calcium channel blocker prove a potent team.(News line)(angiotensin-converting enzyme)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Heart Advisor
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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The combination of an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and a calcium channel blocker (CCB) proved more effective than an ACE inhibitor and a diuretic in reducing major cardiac events and mortality in a study of more than 11,000 men and women age 55 and older. The study, published in the Dec. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, was stopped early because the results of using the ACE inhibitor benazepril and ...