Abstract

A REVIEW ON PHARMACOLOGY OF HYPERTENSION AND ANTI HYPERTENSION DRUGS

P. Mounika Rani*, S. Pavani and Y. L. Priyanka

ABSTRACT

Now a day’s many people are suffering with hypertension and many researchers re going to treat hypertension. It is due to many factors like peoples living condition there food habits etc... Sometimes it leads to cardiac disorders in hyper conditions. So regular checkup should be done to the people in order to reduce this problem. The systolic and diastolic pressure should be normal if there is sudden increase or decrease in this value may leads to increase in hypertension or decrease in hypertension. Anti-hypertensive drugs are used in the treatment of hypertension. Hypertension is a common condition associated with increased mortality and multiple morbidities. Evidence based management of hypertension is known to improve both the short term and long term outcomes in patients with this condition. There are general several measures and pharmacological agents that are known to treat hypertension adequately. Diuretics in particularly low dose thiazides and thiazide like diuretics are widely used in the treatment of hypertension. The review article mainly focusses on the pharmacological action and side effects and outcome data of the use of anti-hypertensive drugs.

Keywords: Hypertension, mortality, multiple morbidities, anti hypertensives.