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Here's a timely piece in light of Don Berwick's comments below, an RFP
issued by e-Patient Dave deBronkart for treatment of his skin cancer.
He says:
*The...
5 hours ago
OnTarget was an important study because it was very well designed and answered a very important question. Do ARB's reduce events in the same way as ACEs. Are the therapies additive.
I think we can feel good about using ARBs in our ACE intolerant patients.
The only question is class effect...is generic lisinopril as good as (soon to be generic) ramipril. The jury is out, and that gets into the issue of Tissue ACE versus non-tissue ACE.
Telmesartan is essentially a "tissue ARB" in that it has a volume of distribution of 500L and consequently a 24 hour halflife. Other ARBs are less lipophillic and have to be dosed BID (losartan and valsartan).
The next megatrial frontier may be duels between the tissue and non-tissue RAAS blockers, or renin inhibitors being thrown into the mix.