Comparative effectiveness of antihypertensive drugs prescribed in Ethiopian healthcare practice: A pilot prospective, randomized, open label study

• Hayelom Gebrekirstos Mengesha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hayetgeb@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Science, Adigrat University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8331-5830

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• Abraha Hailu Welegerima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departement of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Abera Hadgu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departement of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Haftom Temesgen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Mala George Otieno,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Health Science, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Kiflom Tsegay ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kiflom Tsegay, Tedros Fisseha, Samuel Getachew, Zekarias Merha, Helen Tewodros, Jiksa Dabessa

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Adwa Hospital, Internal Medicine Unit, Adwa, Ethiopia

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• Tedros Fisseha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kiflom Tsegay, Tedros Fisseha, Samuel Getachew, Zekarias Merha, Helen Tewodros, Jiksa Dabessa

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Adigrat Hospital, Internal Medicine Unit, Adigrat, Ethiopia

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• Samuel Getachew ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kiflom Tsegay, Tedros Fisseha, Samuel Getachew, Zekarias Merha, Helen Tewodros, Jiksa Dabessa

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Adigrat Hospital, Internal Medicine Unit, Adigrat, Ethiopia

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• Zekarias Merha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kiflom Tsegay, Tedros Fisseha, Samuel Getachew, Zekarias Merha, Helen Tewodros, Jiksa Dabessa

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Kidst Mariam Hospital, Internal Medicine Unit, Axum, Ethiopa

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• Helen Tewodros ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kiflom Tsegay, Tedros Fisseha, Samuel Getachew, Zekarias Merha, Helen Tewodros, Jiksa Dabessa

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Mekelle Hospital, Internal Medicine Unit, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Jiksa Dabessa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kiflom Tsegay, Tedros Fisseha, Samuel Getachew, Zekarias Merha, Helen Tewodros, Jiksa Dabessa

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Ayder Referral Hospital, Internal Medicine Unit, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Berhane Gebreegzabher,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Midwifery, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Pammla Petrucka

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Saskatchewan, College of Nursing, Saskatchewan, Canada, Adjunct Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

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