Cardioprotective therapeutics--drugs used in hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, thromboembolism, arrhythmias, the postmenopausal state and as anti-oxidants.

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Published in Postgrad Med J on May 01, 1994

Authors

M J Kendall1, I Rajman, S R Maxwell

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.

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