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This study suggests that the first-line drug therapy for patients diagnosed with gastric ulcer should be a PPI, in preference to an H2 antagonist.
Therefore, metformin may be an effective first-line pharmacotherapy of choice in these patients [5].
First-line treatment with thiazide diuretics—the oldest and by far the cheapest drug class—has been shown in randomized trials to reduce serious cardiovascular morbidity and mortality with benefits at least as great as first-line treatment with other drug classes.
In Kenya, approximately 26,000 children die each year from malaria, or about 72 per day [ 9 ] . In August 1998 the Government of Kenya changed its first-line anti-malarial treatment from chloroquine to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) [ 10 ] . Amodiaquine was to be the second-line drug.
One of the most influential studies comparing antihypertensive drugs, the ALLHAT study, also supported the use of thiazides as first-line drugs.