Effect of valsartan on the incidence of diabetes and cardiovascular events.

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Published in N Engl J Med on March 14, 2010

Authors

NAVIGATOR Study Group, John J McMurray, Rury R Holman, Steven M Haffner, M Angelyn Bethel, Björn Holzhauer, Tsushung A Hua, Yuri Belenkov, Mitradev Boolell, John B Buse, Brendan M Buckley, Antonio R Chacra, Fu-Tien Chiang, Bernard Charbonnel, Chun-Chung Chow, Melanie J Davies, Prakash Deedwania, Peter Diem, Daniel Einhorn, Vivian Fonseca, Gregory R Fulcher, Zbigniew Gaciong, Sonia Gaztambide, Thomas Giles, Edward Horton, Hasan Ilkova, Trond Jenssen, Steven E Kahn, Henry Krum, Markku Laakso, Lawrence A Leiter, Naomi S Levitt, Viacheslav Mareev, Felipe Martinez, Chantal Masson, Theodore Mazzone, Eduardo Meaney, Richard Nesto, Changyu Pan, Rudolf Prager, Sotirios A Raptis, Guy E H M Rutten, Herbert Sandstroem, Frank Schaper, Andre Scheen, Ole Schmitz, Isaac Sinay, Vladimir Soska, Steen Stender, Gyula Tamás, Gianni Tognoni, Jaako Tuomilehto, Alberto S Villamil, Juraj Vozár, Robert M Califf

Associated clinical trials:

Long-term Study of Nateglinide+Valsartan to Prevent or Delay Type II Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Complications (Navigator) | NCT00097786

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