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anti-hypertensive medication [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
  • Vessels (Medicine)
OBS

Various drugs achieve their antihypertensive effect by depleting tissue stores of catecholamines in peripheral sites, by stimulating pressor receptors in the carotide sinus and heart, by blocking autonomic nerve impulses that constrict blood vessels, by stimulating central inhibitory alpha-2 receptors, or by causing vasodilation.

Key term(s)
  • anti-hypertensive drug
  • antihypertensive medication
  • anti-hypertensive

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
  • Vaisseaux (Médecine)
DEF

Médicament destiné à provoquer un abaissement simultané des pressions artérielles systolique et diastolique afin d’obtenir en permanence des valeurs proches de la normale (inférieures à 140/80 mm de Hg [mercure]).

OBS

Très nombreux, les antihypertenseurs sont classés en plusieurs groupes : centraux (comme la clonidine); diurétiques; β-bloquants; sympatholytiques; inhibiteurs calciques et de l'enzyme de conversion, etc.

OBS

Le traitement de l’hypertension artérielle est efficace pour la prévention des complications de l’athérosclérose dont elle est l’une des principales causes, ainsi que pour la prévention des hémorragies cérébrales et cérébroméningées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicamentos
  • Redes vasculares (Medicina)
DEF

Medicamento utilizado para normalizar una tensión arterial anormalmente alta.

CONT

Entre los antihipertensivos encuentramos los diuréticos, los inhibidores de la enzima de conversión, los antagonistas de la angiotensina II, los inhibidores cálcicos, los vasodilatadores arteriales centrales o periféricos y los betabloqueantes. A veces se puede prescribir una combinación de dos fármacos antihipertensivos.

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