Editorial

Abstract

- -It was shown that in some patients with hypertension of varied cause, careful and persistent control of arterial pressure by antihypertensive drugs results in maintensance of normal or very near normal supine blood pressure after the antihypertensive drugs are discontinued. The one factor common to these patients is that they have been adequately treated for long periods of time. Even though blood pressure may remain reduced in patients with the malignant syndrome, they need to be examined repeatedly because it may again rise. Severity of tne hypertension and diagnosis did not allow differentiation of those who would respond with maintained normal pressure and those who would not. It is believed that a part of the change is due to resetting of the mechanisms controlling arterial pressure levels.