Survey on the Long Term Use of Antihypertensive Drug

Abstract

(1) According to the survey of 379 patients who received treatment with antihypertensive drugs for more than one year, considerable effect of lowering blood pressure was observed in general with the improvement of subjective symptoms. There were also improvements in the objective signs in some cases.
(2) In advanced hypertensive cases (systolic pressure over 220mm.Hg and diastolic pressure over 120mm.Hg) the occurrence of crebral vascular accidents were higher than in hypertensive cases with lower blood pressure in spite of the fact that they were under treatment with hypertensive drugs.
(3) In order to know the present situation of the treatment with antihypertensive drugs, the type of drug used, the average amount used per person per year and the average amount of usage per person per day in the summer and winter season were studied.