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J Cardiovasc Pharmacol
; 16 Suppl 8: S72-4, 1990.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1706040
RESUMO
The effect of nonpharmacological measures--diet (restriction to salt), weight reduction, stress avoidance, stopping smoking, and exercise--are analyzed after being applied to 145 hypertensive individuals (average age 60.3 years) using antihypertensive drugs for 6 months without nonpharmacological therapy. The initial systolic arterial pressure was 177 mm Hg; at the end of 4 weeks of treatment, it was 151.3 mm Hg. The initial diastolic arterial pressure was 98.5 mm Hg; at the end of 4 weeks it was 89.8 mm Hg (p less than 0.001). The proposal for treating hypertension with nonpharmacological measures represents a challenge and opens a new horizon to scientific research.