title: [Current treatment regimen in essential arterial hypertension].
abstract: The introduction in the treatment of arterial hypertension of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and calcium inhibitors, as well as the results of extensive multicentric therapeutic trials, suggest that the prescription of antihypertensive drugs will be profoundly altered in the forthcoming years. The "step by step" approach will be abandoned, and each patient will receive one or two drugs chosen for being the most selective and most suitable for his case. These more personalized long-term treatments will be better tolerated, and the greater patient's compliance will make them more effective drugs to the underlying pathology (smoking habits, blood lipid disorders, early arterial lesions) the antihypertensive treatment will have a greater reducing effect on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
mesh_terms: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents
vernacular_title: Schéma actuel du traitement de l'hypertension artérielle essentielle.