“…Patel (1977) states that "asking patients with symptomless hypertension to submit to lifelong medication, especially when many antihypertensive drugs produce unpleasant side effects, is not easy" (p. 3). Numerous authors (Langfeld, 1973;McKenney, Slining, Henderson, Devins, and Barr, 1973;Brook and Appel, 1973) have noted that even when pharmacological treatment was initiated, compliance with long-term medication, especially among asymptomatic hypertensives, was very poor.…”