title: [On the choice of pharmacotherapy for the treatment of arterial hypertension in elderly patients with diabetes mellitus].
abstract: 107 male patients with diabetes mellitus type II (DM) combined with hypertension aged 62 to 76 years were divided into 5 groups comparable by DM but different by characteristics of hypertension, ischemic heart disease or other associated diseases the presence of which determined the choice of one or another drugs against hypertension. These drugs belonging to 5 groups (calcium antagonists, inhibitors of angiotensin converting enzymes, beta-blockers, alpha-blockers, agonists of imidasoline receptors) were compared in monotherapy and combined therapy for hypotensive activity and safety. It was found that monotherapy with corinfar, capoten, and cint had a potent hypotensive effect, atenolol and prasosin had moderate hypotensive efficacy and caused side effects more frequently. In differentiated use of the above drugs negative effects on associated diseases did not occur.
authors.affiliation: Moskva
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Burtsev
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Kochnova
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents