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The drug treatment of arterial hypertension
Author(s) -
Page Irvine H.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt196675567
Subject(s) - medicine , drug , blood pressure , mechanism (biology) , intensive care medicine , drug treatment , pharmacology , cardiology , philosophy , epistemology
Some of the important events in the contemporary history of the drug treatment of arterial hypertension are discussed. The many kinds of hypertension are beginning to be recognized and defined, and attempts are being made to fit the treatment to the mechanism. Although only a limited number of mechanisms causing hypertension are involved in the drugs employed, still normal or almost normal blood pressures can be achieved. Physicians and patients must be trained to use these drugs more effectively.