Volume 5, Number 3, May-June 2008

Aliskiren: the first direct renin inhibitor for hypertension
Susan Mayor

Aliskiren (Rasilez) is the first in a new class of medicines – the direct renin inhibitors – to treat high blood pressure to become available in more than a decade. In this article we review how aliskiren works, what makes it different from other drugs acting on the reninangiotensin system (RAS), its efficacy and tolerability and its likely place in the management of hypertension.

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