Avalide

I’ve been prescribing antihypertensives for over twenty years. I’ve seen the waves of fashion in medicine—beta-blockers first line, then calcium channel blockers, then ACE inhibitors, then ARBs. Each class has its champions and its casualties. But when I look back at the charts of patients who actually stayed on therapy, who didn’t bounce from drug to drug, who didn’t call me at 2 AM with a dry cough or ankle swelling that looked like tree trunks, a surprising number of them were on Avalide.