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An ACCOMPLISHED regimen for hypertension

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At first glance, the findings of the ACCOMPLISH trial threaten to undermine the importance of diureticss in the arsenal of blood-pressure-lowering therapies. But closer examination reveals that the story is more complicated.

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Figure 1: Kaplan–Meier curves for time to first primary composite end point in the ACCOMPLISH trial.

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