Blood pressure and lipid lowering effects of terazosin.

Treatment of hypertension reduces the risk of developing stroke, renal failure and left ventricular failure but not that of coronary heart disease. The reasons for the less favourable results of antihypertensive regimens on coronary heart disease are manifold and unresolved. Antihypertensive treatments which in addition to their blood pressure lowering effects also favourably influence serum lipids offer greater promise to lower coronary heart disease. The long-acting postsynaptic alpha-blocker terazosin was assessed in terms of multifactorial aspects of patients with various risk profiles. The results of clinical trials underline that terazosin changes blood lipids in a beneficial direction and therefore has the potential to lower coronary heart disease more effectively than conventional antihypertensive medications.