| Abstract: | AIM: To assess hypotensive efficacy and metabolic neutrality of moxonidine (physiotenz)--a selective agonist of imidasoline receptors--in patients with mild and moderate arterial hypertension (AH) associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Follow-up and treatment were conducted in 30 hypertensive diabetics (mean age 52.43 +/- 4.65 years). Mean duration of DM and AH was 4.77 +/- 2.69 and 6.93 +/- 2.98 years, respectively. The study was made of lipid exchange, glycemia, levels of glycosylated hemoglobin (GH), fasting and postprandial immunoreactive insulin. Hypotensive efficacy was examined by 24-h monitoring of arterial pressure after 16 weeks of therapy. RESULTS: Mean 24-h systolic arterial pressure fell by 8.02%, diastolic arterial pressure--by 6.47%. The drug had a good effect on a 24-h profile of arterial pressure: a significant decrease of day and night pressure load index, lowering of initially high 24-h variability of systolic and diastolic arterial pressure, normalization of two-phase profile of arterial pressure. Carbohydrate metabolism improved also: GH, glycemia, immunoreactive insulin decreased. There was a significant trend to a change in qualitative composition of blood lipid--a decrease in lipoproteins atherogenic fractions and a rise in HDLP. CONCLUSION: Physiotens is a highly effective hypotensive drug for use in mild and moderate AH in DM of type 2. |
