[Side effects of drugs, individual hypertension therapy, and drug-taking behavior of patients].
Main thought of the therapy of hypertension is the possibly far-reaching normalisation of the haemodynamics changed by hypertension with simultaneous control of undesirable side-effects. With the aim to keep the side-effects low, depending on the degree of severity and the complication of hypertension, on other basic diseases, age and situation of life important references to an individual therapy are the result for every patient. This is of importance for the selection of the drugs to be applied as well as for an individually suitable dosage. Nevertheless, the side-effects cannot always be fully avoided. The consideration of frequently appearing side-effects furthers a good patient compliance in an active doctor-patient relationship. An own study showed that in special consulting hour for hypertension only one third of the patients regularly take the drugs, another third arbitrarily had modified the therapy. The regularity of the consultation of the physician only little states about the intake behaviour of the patients.
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010349:Patient Compliance
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents
Arzneimittelnebenwirkungen, individuelle Hypertonietherapie und Einnahmeverhalten der Patienten.