Blood Pressure-Lowering Aspects of Lipid-Lowering and Anti-Diabetic Drugs

Abstract

Several studies have shown that blood pressure can be lowered by the use of drugs that are not traditional antihypertensive drugs. This might be of clinical importance when many risk patients are treated by combination drug therapy in order to prevent cardiovascular disease by way of improving the cardiovascular risk factor profile.

Keywords

• blood pressure
• glitazone
• metformin
• orlistat
• rimonabant
• sibutramine
• sitagliptin
• statin