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A commentary on the Spanish hypertension studies MAPEC and HYGIA |
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| Authors: | Björn Lemmer Martin Middeke |
| Affiliation: | 1. Institue of Pharmacology &2. Toxicology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg , Frankfurt, Germany bjoern.lemmer@medma.uni-heidelberg.de;4. Hypertension Centre Munic, An Excellence Centre of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) , München, Germany |
| Abstract: | ABSTRACT The recently published chronotherapeutic Spanish papers MAPEC and HYGIA proposing that antihypertensive drug treatment should be given at bedtime suffers from obvious deficiencies in study design and are not a valid basis for drug treatment of hypertension. |
| Keywords: | Hypertension MAPEC HYGIA |