[Treatment of hypertension with propranolol in internal medicine and general practice. A field trial with a simplified twice daily administration of Dociton 80 (author's transl)].

More recent investigations on the duration of effect and plasma half-life of propranolol suggest a simplification of dosage for the beta-blocker in the treatment of hypertension. A field trial with Dociton 80 twice daily as initial therapy was carried out in over 2000 patients with essential hypertension with relatively few side effects and confirmed the distinctly longer-persisting effect of the beta-blocker on longterm application. Including the marginal values, the response rate in this collective was relatively high at 73%.