Publication at Third Faculty of Medicine |
2010
Abstract
Hypertension treatment is not invariably a simple task with the optimal treatment strategy being affected by a number of factors: age, associated conditions, blood pressure level, concurrent medications, patient compliance and numerous other variables. Selecting the most appropriate medication, which on the one hand will best contribute to improving the patient's prognosis and on the other hand will be well tolerated, depends on determining and respecting these features.
The present review is concerned with the current opinions on the treatment of hypertension in diabetics, in patients with kidney disease, heart failure and heart valve defects, or in the elderly