“…After having reviewed the title and abstract, 3,845 were excluded. Of the 162 full-text articles retrieved, 142 original articles were excluded for various reasons ( Figure 1 ), leaving 20 eligible original articles in the analysis ( Chen et al, 1995 ; Klingbeil et al, 2002 ; Ariff et al, 2006 ; Dart et al, 2007 ; Jiang et al, 2007 ; Schneider et al, 2008 ; Mackenzie et al, 2009 ; Matsui et al, 2009 ; Boutouyrie et al, 2010 ; Doi et al, 2010 ; Vitale et al, 2012 ; Kubota et al, 2013 ; Radchenko et al, 2013 ; Kim et al, 2014 ; Koumaras et al, 2014 ; Ghiadoni et al, 2017 ; Jekell et al, 2017 ; Miyoshi et al, 2017 ; Webster et al, 2017 ; Choi et al, 2018 ), comparing RAS inhibitors ( n = 21) or CCBs ( n = 6) with diuretics, β-blockers, or an α-blocker ( Table 1 ).…”