title: [Pharmacological cost-efficacy of various schemes of combined antihypertensive therapy in elderly patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To validate optimal cost-effective pharmacological policy in combined therapy of elderly hypertensive patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 150 patients of a day hospital aged 55-74 years with at least stage II arterial hypertension of 4-40 years of duration a study was made of the cost efficacy of their combined treatment. The patients received lisinopril, metoprolol, nifedipin, enalapril, hypothiaside, indapamid. Clinical efficacy was assessed by the following criteria: a fall in systolic arterial pressure to at least 139 mm Hg or at least by 20% of the baseline, a fall in diastolic pressure to at least 89 mm Hg or 10% of the baseline. Economic parameters included cost of the disease, cost/effect values.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Combination egilok+hypothiaside was the cheapest but the least effective. Diroton+indap combination was cheaper than less effective combination cordipin-retard+hypothiaside and renitek-hypothiaside. Pharmacological and cost efficacy of diroton+indap combination was the highest.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Combination of lisinopril with indapamid was most adequate as to its cost and effect and can be used as a medication of the first line in elderly hypertensive patients.
authors.forename: Iu V
authors.initials: IuV
authors.lastname: Red'kin
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Nikolaev
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000191:economics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents