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Initially it did not gain much popularity and was dismissed as merely “correspondence courses” or a “cheap and trashy” form of education, but now distance learning has become an emerging and effective educational strategy that is gaining widespread acceptance. 1 Our program maintains a series of did...

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Published in:The Ochsner journal 2013-04, Vol.13 (1), p.166
Main Authors: Abd-Elsayed, Alaa A, Seoane, Leonardo, Alberto Morales Salinas, Lavie, Carl J, Lawrence, John P, Amedee, Ron, Coca, Antonio, DiNicolantonio, James D, O'Keefe, James H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anesthesiology
Beta blockers
Blood pressure
Cardiovascular disease
Clinical outcomes
Coronary vessels
Distance learning
Health education
Health risk assessment
Hypertension
Public speaking
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Summary:Initially it did not gain much popularity and was dismissed as merely “correspondence courses” or a “cheap and trashy” form of education, but now distance learning has become an emerging and effective educational strategy that is gaining widespread acceptance. 1 Our program maintains a series of didactic lectures on Tuesday afternoons from 4:00-6:00 pm and Wednesday mornings from 7:00-8:00 am. Effects of beta blockers and calcium-channel blockers on within-individual variability in blood pressure and risk of stroke. Prevention of cardiovascular events with an antihypertensive regimen of amlodipine adding perindopril as required versus atenolol adding bendroflumethiazide as required, in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial-Blood Pressure Lowering Arm (ASCOT-BPLA): a multicentre randomised controlled trial.
ISSN:1524-5012