… a common misconception about the clinical significance of essential hypertension: namely,
that the increase in blood pressure was essential (or compensatory) to guarantee adequate …

… treating hypertensive patients may be useful in the primary prevention of essential
hypertension… of genes responsible for inherited essential hypertension will likely yield even more …

… drug treatment diminishes the complications of hypertension. The concept that a few
major genes will provide the final clue to the pathogenesis of essential hypertension is an …

… history of hypertension treated not with … in essential hypertension. In 1946, when the present
study began, enthusiasm for sympathectomy as definitive therapy for essential hypertension…

… the benign essential hypertension of short duration to the highly malignant hypertension. …
scientific study of patients before and after operation seemed most essential in determining the …

… are essential for all patients with essential hypertension, as a first step and also in
conjunction with pharmacotherapy. The initial recommended drug therapy for patients without …

… 20 mg, and placebo in patients with essential hypertension. After a placebo run-in period,
308 patients (all white) were randomized to treatment groups and took medication once daily …

… in up to 25% of ACE inhibitor-treated patients and results in discontinuation of the drug in …
in the treatment of patients stages 1 to 3 essential hypertension. PATIENTS AND METHODS …

… essential hypertension (EH) is the major risk factor for cardiac complications, leading to high
… of treatment of two initially similar groups of hypertensive patients, with or without admin …

… more than 4000 patients and 146 active treatment arms, indicate that antihypertensive drug
classes differ in their effects on left ventricular mass in patients with essential hypertension. …