[Secondary medicinal prevention of uncomplicated hypertension in an outpatient clinic]

Drug treatment is indicated for all patients aged under 60 years with stage II essential hypertension and the level of diastolic arterial pressure equal to 100 mm Hg. One should not try to normalize arterial blood pressure in all the cases. The purpose of hypertensive therapy of stage II essential hypertension, grave and of medium gravity, is to reduce diastolic arterial pressure to the magnitude lower than 105 mm Hg and systolic arterial pressure to the magnitude lower than 160 mm Hg. Long-term pharmacotherapy of stage II essential hypertension of mild gravity retards the disease progress, the development of cardiovascular complications and steady loss of work fitness.