Overview: This book brings together papers presented at an international symposium on centrally- acting antihypertensive agents held in Geneva, Switzerland, in association with the 10th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension. A major focus of this symposium was the sympatholytic agent, clonidine, and was partly stimulated by the re- cent development of an innovative transdermal system for administering this antihyper- tensive drug. Although clonidine has been available to clinicians for several years, there has been a re- cent reawakening of interest in this type of me
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