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Blood Pressure Drug Combination Reduces Heart Attack Deaths

Thousands of patients with high blood pressure could benefit from changing their drug treatment regimen to reduce their risk of cardiac death. The current U.S. hypertension treatment guidelines recommend using a thiazide diuretic a drug that increases the volume of urine alone as the initial drug therapy for high blood pressure.
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