title: [The treatment of arterial hypertension: which drug for which patient?].
abstract: Hypertension is a multifactorial disease. Various antihypertensive drugs can lower arterial pressure in a given patient in a more or less efficient way. The sequential testing of several drugs is most promising for lowering blood pressure by monotherapy. If necessary a drug combination is preferable to dose adjustments of a single substance because of the risk for side effects growing with the dose.
authors.affiliation: Division d'hypertension, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Lausanne.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wafber
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niederberger
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nussberger
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burnier
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Brunner
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents
vernacular_title: Le traitement de l'hypertension artérielle: quel médicament pour quelle malade?