All currently available classes of antihypertensive drugs were developed before it was widely recognized that increased blood pressure is closely associated with insulin resistance and dyslipidemia and well before public health authorities established diagnostic criteria for the metabolic syndrome. Thus, the antihypertensive drugs in use today were designed primarily to affect cellular and biochemical mechanisms contributing to
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