What is the effect of lowering the blood pressure on quality of life? A sub-study to the Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) study;Quelle influence l'abaissement de la pression arterielle a-t-il sur la qualite de vie ?. Une etude auxiliaire de l'essai HOT (Hypertension Optimal Treatment)

Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1079-1082

  Wiklund, ^a,b   Halling, K ^a   Ryden Bergsten, T ^a  

^a Dept de Rech sur la Qualite de Vie ^*  (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WELLBEING;

BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0032781346     PISSN: 00039683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. The HOT Study Group. The Hypertension Optimal Treatment Study (The HOT Study). Blood Press 1993 ; 2 : 62-8.
2. Hjemdahl P, Wiklund I. Quality of life on antihypertensive drug therapy - scientific end-point or marketing exercise? J Hypertens 1992 ; 10 : 1437-46.
3. Pilgrim JA, Stansfeld S, Marmot M. Low blood pressure, low mood? BMJ 1992 ; 304 : 75-8.
4. Wessely S, Nickson J, Cox B. Symptoms of low blood pressure: a population study. BMJ 1990 ; 301 : 362-5.
5. Hansson L, Zanchetti A, Carruthers SG et al. for the HOT Study Group. Effect or intensive blood-pressure lowering and low-dose aspirin in patients with hypertension: principal results of the Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) randomised trial. Lancet 1998 ; 351 : 1755-62.
6. Wiklund I, Halling K, Rydén-Bergsten T, Fletcher A on behalf of the HOT Study Group. Does lowering the blood pressure improve the mood? Quality-of-Life results from the Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) Study. Blood Press 1997 ; 6 : 357-64.
7. Hansson L for the BBB Study Group. The BBE Study: the effect of intensified antihypertensive treatment on the level of blood pressure, side-effects, morbidity and mortality in "well-treated" hypertensive patients. Blood Press 1994 ; 3 : 248-54.
8. Grimm RH, Grandits GA, Cutler JA et al. Relationships of quality-of-life measures to long-term lifestyle and drug treatment in the treatment of mild hypertension study. Arch Intern Med 1997 ; 157 : 638-48.
9. Dimenäs ES, Wiklund IK, Dahlöf CG, Lindvall KG, Olofsson BK, De Faire UH. Differences in subjective well-being and symptoms of normotensives, borderline hypertensives and hypertensives. J Hypertension 1989 ; 7 : 885-90.