Does the quality of spouses ' social networks contribute to each other 's cardiovascular risk?
These data suggest that the social ties of those we have close relationships with may influence our cardiovascular risk and opens new opportunities to capitalize on untapped social resources or to mitigate hidden sources of social strain.
Taken together with the other observations of differences in effects, we conclude that the claim that all beta-adrenergic blockers are inferior drugs for hypertensive patients should be rejected. Atenolol is not representative of the beta-adrenergic blocker class of drugs as a whole and is thus not a suitable drug for comparisons with other antihypertensive drugs in terms of effect. The non-atenolol beta-adrenergic blockers should thus continue to be fundamental in antihypertensive drug treatments.