title: Long-term treatment of hypertension with methyldopa. VII. Effectiveness among patients treated for seven or more years.
abstract: Experience with 25 hypertensive patients who had received methyldopa for 7 years or more as part of a multiclinic retrospective study is described. Methyldopa proved highly effective and usually well tolerated for long-term management of essential hypertension.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002908:Chronic Disease; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008750:Methyldopa / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D008750:Methyldopa