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So those are kind of the main groups of medications that lower blood pressure.

And what your particular health care provider may choose to use in your case can be dictated by several different things, whether or not you have diabetes, whether you've already had a heart attack or heart disease. Sometimes whether you're a man or a woman, what age you are, what race you are. So all these things kind of play in. But we do know that the actual lowering of the blood pressure, no matter what agent, has profound impact on the development of heart attack, on the prevention of stroke, as well as the prevention of heart failure.

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