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The Antihypertensive Reduces Vascular Risk?

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

 Antihypertensive

What is the most antihypertensive therapy protects the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system? Have talked about names in cardiology authoritative speakers at the symposium “Optimizing to hypertensive therapy reduces cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risks” of the ESC Congress 2005 which was held in Stockholm.

The antihypertensive reduces vascular risk?

Once again in this authoritative occasion was highlighted as the main goal of treatment of hypertensive disease should not be considered the sole reduction of blood pressure to reach the target values recommended by recent guidelines, but a significant decrease risk of vascular disease of the heart, brain and related systems.

Although the last major international trials have however shown a significant reduction of vascular risk in correlation to a reduction in blood pressure in hypertensive patients, Bryan Williams, professor at the University of Leicester, in the first speech of the symposium, it was initially asked whether all types of medication available today are just as effective, not only in reducing blood pressure, but also in the entity of the reduction in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk. (more…)

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Hypertension Treatment

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

hypertension treatmentWhat is the best treatment?

Today we have many drugs to treat hypertensive patients. The ideal treatment should be effective, safe, easy to perform, without adverse economic effects. Unfortunately, all these features are hard to find in a single drug, but every day makes more progress in achieving the objective. Modern treatments have demonstrated efficacy of 50 to 70%, and by combining two or more drugs are able to control blood pressure over 90% of cases.

The objective of the consultation is whether the pressure is controlled with treatment, and if you did not take medication is impossible to know. The drugs exert their action during a given time; past it are metabolized and eliminated from the body.

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