The treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) encom¬passes many strategies all of which aim to improve symp¬toms and prognosis. While in the acute coronary syndrome, early revascularisation (usually by means of PCI and stent implantation) is the urgent goal of treatment, drug therapy initially has only a supportive role here but is also important for improving prognosis. The situation is rev…
Good management of blood pressure reduces cardiovas¬cular morbidity and mortality, thereby improving progno¬sis. Yet only every fourth hypertensive is treated for their condition, and only half of them adequately, i.e., reaching the target blood pressure. The focus of this book is on antihypertensive therapy in therapeutically significant comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus, metabolic syn…