The VALIANT trial compared ACE-inhibitor, ARB and a combination of the two in high-risk post-MI patients, and found there may be an interaction between them and statins. John McMurray from the Western Infirmary in Glasgow.
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Audio Medica talked with Roberto Ferrari , Vice President of the ESC, about the PREAMI study on the use of the ACE inhibitor perindopril in older patients who have survived acute myocardial infarction.
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It could be just as good to start treatment for heart failure with a beta blocker first and subsequently use an ACE inhibitor, as the more convetional use of an ACE inhibitor first followed by a beta blocker. …