[Aspects of treatment of hypertension in rheumatic diseases]

The author deals with the reasons of the frequent incidence of hypertension in rheumatic diseases and some special aspects of its therapy (nephrogenic hypertension in systemic diseases, weakening of the action of antihypertensive drugs by nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, chronic corticosteroid treatment and the unsuitability of some antihypertensive drugs in different rheumatic diseases).