Treatment of arterial hypertension in the elderly using enalapril.
BACKGROUND
Arterial pressure increases with age and is the most common chronic disease in the elderly, men and women alike. At present arterial hypertension is considered a social disease as it poses great health, economic and social problems.


METHODS
A group of 50 patients of both sexes, between 66 and 83 years of age, suffering from essential arterial hypertension and treated with Enalapril administered at doses varying from 10 to 20 mg/day, for a period of 18 months, has been studied.


CONCLUSIONS
The results of this study showed that blood pressure values of almost all the patients treated normalised and left ventricular hypertrophy decreased in all patients with this complication.
Terranova
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Department of Geriatrics, University of Catania.
Luca
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Calanna
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000187:drug effects; D004656:Enalapril / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D004656:Enalapril