Review Article
Beta-Blockers in the Management of Hypertension and/or Chronic Kidney Disease
Table 1
Plausible reasons for beta-blockers being relatively ineffective for the prevention of cardiovascular events.
| Less effective lowering of the blood pressure | Visit-to-visit blood pressure instability | Less effective lowering of the central blood pressure | Less effective regression of the left ventricular hypertrophy | Unfavorable metabolic effects | Less effective vascular protection | Reduced drug compliance |
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