Losartan is an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) used to treat hypertension. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are used for a similar indication but are associated with a cough. When patients with ACE inhibitor associated coughs are switched to ARBs like losartan, they have an incidence of cough similar to placebo or hydrochlorothiazide. Los...
Losartan is indicated to treat hypertension in patients older than 6 years, reduce the risk of stroke in patients with hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy (though this benefit may not extend to patients with African heritage), and to treat diabetic nephropathy with elevated serum creatinine and proteinuria in patients with type 2 diabetes and hyper...
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
UAB Center for Exercise Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Translational Research Institute, Orlando, Florida, United States
Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Cvie Therapeutics Limited, Taipei, Taiwan
University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas, United States
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Insitute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Munich, Germany
Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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