Title: [Randomized, comparative study to evaluate efficacy and safety of doxazosin versus nitrendipine in the treatment of mild to moderate hypertension].
Abstract: Doxazosin, an alfa-1 adrenoceptor antagonist, was compared with nitrendipine, a calcium antagonist, to evaluate their efficacy and safety in 61 patients with mild to moderate hypertension. 31 patients were assigned randomly to receive 1-16 mg of doxazosin and 30 patients were assigned to 10-20 mg of nitrendipine during 14 weeks (10 weeks of titration and 4 weeks of maintenance). Mean final dose was 6.1 mg for doxazosin and 15.6 mg for nitrendipine. Both treatments reduced supine and standing diastolic and systolic blood pressure (p < 0.01 for all comparisons). 22 patients in the doxazosin group (78.6%) and 18 in the nitrendipine group (78.3%) were considered therapy successes. There were not clinically significant changes in laboratory tests for both groups. Global assessment of adverse events was similar for both treatments (46.7% for doxazosin and 44.8% for nitrendipine), although patients treated with nitrendipine presented facial rush (20%) against none of the doxazosin group (p < 0.05). Withdrawals due to adverse events were higher in the nitrendipine group than in the doxazosin one (20.7% versus 6.7%, p = 0.14). The results of this study confirms that both antihypertensives reduced blood pressure in patients with mild to moderate hypertension. Furthermore, doxazosin treatment demonstrates a fewer number of withdrawals caused by adverse events.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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