Response to mental and physical stress before and during adrenoreceptor blocker and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor treatment in essential hypertension

Exercise testing in hypertensive patients taking different angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors

“…This difference may be due to a greater capacity of trandolapril to control blood pressure during situations of mental stress, such as the moments preceding an exercise test. In accordance with this hypothesis, Paran et al 13 showed that atenolol inhibited blood pressure response to mental stress, in contrast with enalapril, which was not effective in controlling blood pressure alterations due to mental stress. Similarly, Grossman et al 14 did not report changes in blood pressure response to mental stress in hypertensive patients treated with fosinopril, an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor.…”