[Hemodynamic and hormonologic basis of the treatment of arterial hypertension].

The efficiency and the variety of drugs used in the treatment of arterial hypertension demand that the various disorders responsible for the blood pressure increase be well individualized. The study of the haemodynamic and hormonal factors and of their interelations in the patients provides interesting informations which make it possible to classify the hypertensive subjects according to physiopathological criteria. Starting from these data, it is possible to consider a rational treatment by selecting the drugs acting specifically on the anomalies to be corrected.