Why the study?
Does step-down therapy reduce side effects while maintaining blood pressure control in well-controlled hypertensive patients?
Does step-down therapy reduce side effects while maintaining blood pressure control in well-controlled hypertensive patients?
Step-down therapy in well-controlled hypertensive patients can successfully reduce medication burden and significantly alleviate side effects.
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May support deprescribing to ease side effects in controlled hypertension; leaves open BP maintenance and requires randomized confirmation.
Frank A. Finnerty (1981) studied this question.
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