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[Effect of the ACE-inhibitor captopril on the blood pressure and kidney function of patients with essential and renal hypertension].

Abstract
We retrospectively analysed the effects of a 12-month treatment with captopril (Tensiomin) in 46 patients. All of the patients had hypertension lasting for years (9 essential, 37 with chronic renal failure), 32 of them had proteinuria. Captopril was given in addition to, or in exchange for, other antihypertensive drugs. Under treatment with ACE-inhibitors, a small but significant decrease in diastolic blood pressure (0.4 torr/month) and in proteinuria (0.19 g/month) was seen (regression analysis). Discriminant analysis showed proteinuria and diastolic blood pressure to be the more modifiable, the younger the patients, the higher the proteinuria at the beginning and the longer the history of hypertension. Serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, serum protein and serum potassium did not change.
AuthorsU Jansa, G Stein, K Günther
JournalZeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete (Z Gesamte Inn Med) Vol. 46 Issue 17 Pg. 642-7 (Dec 1991) ISSN: 0044-2542 [Print] Germany
Vernacular TitleEinfluss des ACE-Hemmers Captopril auf den Blutdruck und die Nierenfunktion bei Patienten mit essentieller und renaler Hypertonie.
PMID1776307 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Captopril
Topics
  • Adult
  • Blood Pressure (drug effects)
  • Captopril (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension (drug therapy, physiopathology)
  • Hypertension, Renal (drug therapy, physiopathology)
  • Kidney (drug effects)
  • Kidney Function Tests
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Proteinuria (drug therapy)
  • Regression Analysis

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