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Life quality in non-pharmacological therapy of hypertension
1Department of Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. Supplement
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Measurements of life quality have recently been included in drug trials on hypertension. In literature, not one single reference was found on life quality in non-pharmacological therapy of hypertension. More or less a tacit understanding is, however, that the life quality is unchanged, or at least not impaired, during non-pharmacological therapy. Experiences from a study of 400 patients with the aim to reduce or withdraw antihypertensive drugs, at the same time as non-pharmacological methods were introduced, show the difficulties to evaluate changes of life quality in a non-pharmacological study.