For decades doctors were treating high blood pressure with water pills as first medicine to start with .
The new landmark study ( Accomplish Study) will make this approach the thing of the past.
Accomplish Study was conducted on high risk hypertensive patients who were divided into 2 groups.
One group was given traditional pill consisting of Ace Inhibitor and Water pill combination, the other Combination of Ace inhibitor and Calcium Channel Blocker.
Study was stopped early for ethical reasons after reported 20% lower cardiovascular event rate in the second group.
The water pill should be the third and not the first drug to treat hypertension said Dr. Bakris, professor of medicineand director of the hypertensive disease unit at the University of Chicago.
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