title: [Treating hypertension: a challenge for the general practitioner].
abstract: Hypertension is associated with a greater risk of developing a stroke or a coronary heart disease, but remains, for the meanwhile, undertreated in a vast majority of patients. Non pharmacological interventions can reduce blood pressure and should be recommended to every patient suffering from hypertension. Nevertheless, a drug therapy must often be introduced. The threshold at which a treatment should be started depends mostly on the cardiovascular risk of each patient and the benefit of antihypertensive drug therapy depends primarily on the reduction of the blood pressure itself.
authors.affiliation: Département de Médecine, Hôpotaix Universitaires de Geneve, 1211 Geneve.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sebo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Péchère
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Desmeules
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dayer
mesh_terms: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents