Mechanisms of hypertension in the overweight.
Mechanisms of hypertension in the overweight.
复制标题
超重高血压的机制。
作者:
E. Sims
WE are in a period in which the management of mild and moderate hypertension is being reevaluated. The U.S. Veterans Administration studies initiated nearly 20 years ago indicated that drug treatment of hypertension clearly reduced morbidity and mortality. Large scale controlled studies since that time have either compared the effect of one drug with another or of one or more drugs with that of usual care in the community. There is, however, an increasing uneasiness that many of the million of patients taking drugs with known and unknown longterm side effects may be doing so inappropriately. Some years ago in an extended trial of withdrawal of hypertension drugs or substitution of a placebo, Dustan et al. found that relatively few hypertension patients could sustain their reduction of blood pressure without medication. However, more recently Finnerty has shown in a large series of patients that the total dosage or the number of antihypertensive drugs can be reduced without impairing the antihypertensive effect and with considerable reduction in adverse symptoms of medication. In neither of these studies, however, was an attempt made to substitute nonpharmacologic for pharmacologic measures. It is noteworthy that hypertensives tend to be an overweight group of patients, with a mean of 30% above ideal weight in most large series, and that metabolic derangements such as noninsulin-dependent diabetes and hyperlipidemia are often associated. The 1979 Report of the Hypertension Task Force of the National Institutes of Health urged that attention be given to the special problems of the overweight
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
Landsberg,L;Young,JB
通讯作者:
Young,JB
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
Horton,ES
通讯作者:
Horton,ES