Carvedilol use and specific cancer risk in the population with hypertension: Reply

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¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Emergency and Critical Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. Electronic address: d10040@mail.cmuh.org.tw.

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Chin-Sheng Lin et al. Int J Cardiol. 2015.

. 2015 Jul 1:190:159-60.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.04.171. Epub 2015 Apr 22.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Emergency and Critical Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. Electronic address: d10040@mail.cmuh.org.tw.

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Keywords: Beta-blocker; Cancer; Carvedilol; Hypertension; Population-based cohort study; Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database.

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Carvedilol use and specific cancer risk in the population with hypertension.
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