Chronic kidney disease presents a health challenge that has a complex underlying
pathophysiology, both acquired and inherited. The pharmacotherapeutic treatment options …

Inhibitors of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) act by blocking the conversion of
angiotensin I to angiotensin II, which is catalysed by this enzyme. ACE inhibitors also …

Perindopril erbumine (perindopril) is a prodrug ester of perindoprilat, an angiotensin
converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. Perindopril 4 to 8mg once daily significantly reduces …

Introduction Health economics is a thriving sub-discipline of economics. Applied health
economics research is considered essential in the health care sector and is used …

A capillary zone electrophoresis method has been developed for the quantitation of
antihypertensive drug cilazapril and its active metabolite cilazaprilat in pharmaceuticals and …

A significant subgroup of patients with diabetes mellitus are predisposed to developing
diabetic nephropathy and it is in this subgroup that other diabetesrelated complications, and …

Background: Reference-based pricing is a cost-containment policy applied to prescription
drugs that are in the same class and deemed to be therapeutically equivalent. Recent …

The VA National Formulary generated controversy, which motivated congressional scrutiny
and a directive to the VA to commission this report reviewing the experience with the …

Statins and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are an important component of
our armamentarium for stroke prevention. Both of these classes of agents have a primary …

Aim: Retrospective analysis of the prescribing practice and cost of ambulatory treatment of
hypertension and its common complications–heart failure, sequelae of cerebrovascular …