PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - Vidt, Donald G.
ED  - Bakst, Alan
TI  - Tailoring antihypertensive therapy in 1991
DP  - 1991 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 277--284
VI  - 58
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/58/3/277.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/58/3/277.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1991 May 01; 58
AB  - Tailored care will increasingly become the hallmark of treatment for patients with hypertension in the 1990s. In mildly hypertensive patients, treatment should begin with nonpharmacologic approaches to lower blood pressure and reduce the patient’s cardiovascular risk profile. The ever-increasing array of antihypertensive drugs and drug classes will enable clinicians to select agents based on the advantages and disadvantages for a particular patient, while continuing to move away from the rigid guidelines of stepped care. Physicians more often will base their choice of antihypertensive therapy not on safety and efficacy alone, but rather on the safety and efficacy of the drug in long-term care and the impact of therapy on quality of life.