Cautious interpretation of the associations between systemic hypertension, antihypertensive medications and the risk

Jibran Mohamed-Noriega1, Andrew Scott, Luis Abegão Pinto

  • 1aNIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK bDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital 'Dr José Eleuterio González', Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (U.A.N.L.), Monterrey, Nuevo León, México cVisual Sciences Study Center, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal dDepartment of Ophthalmology, Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris-Sud University, DHU Sight Restore, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France *Collaborators of the writing committee for the International Glaucoma Panel: Aparna Rao, Rachel Chong, Gokulan Ratnarajan, Verena Prokosch-Willing, Tuan Ho, Renato Antunes Schiave Germano, Nathan Kerr, Yaxing Wang, Laura Beltran-Agullo, Maurizio Digiuni, Hari Jayaram, Karl Mercieca, Manuele Michelessi, Cornelia Hirn, Eduardo Normando, Marcos Munoz, Efthymios Karmiris, Mehmet Cem Mocan.

Journal of Hypertension
|September 28, 2017
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