title: [General, non-medicamentous treatment of arterial hypertension].
abstract: This review focuses on the following aspects of nonpharmacological management concerning elevation of blood pressure: historical development, highlights and theses, possibilities of intervention, as well as favorable observations, advantages (in early diagnosis), disadvantages, fields of application, and integration of this form of treatment into a comprehensive strategy of hypertension control at a population level. A selection of detailed results is elaborated including: possible failure in primary classification of elevated blood pressure and its consequences, the reducibility of the hypertension problem if nonpharmacological measures are generally used, risk factor prevalences in medical and non-medical university cadres, blood pressure reduction in a spa, and hemodynamic changes induced by nonpharmacological or combined antihypertensive treatment simultaneously with drugs. Finally, reference is made to international results, as well as to the importance of the relation between diagnosing and treating blood pressure elevation concomitantly with a simultaneous management of other main risk factors that must be influenced in order to reduce the cardiac risk in hypertensives.
authors.affiliation: Herzzentrum der Charité, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, DDR.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Günther
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frille
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Winterfeld
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Hunger
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Piorkowski
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bohm
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Allgemeine, nichtmedikamentöse Behandlung des arteriellen Bluthochdrucks.