1. The adequacy of the control of essential hypertension during exercise was studied in patients whose resting blood pressure had been controlled for 1 year with either metoprolol or methyldopa.

2. Systolic blood pressure increased with exercise in both groups, the increase being significantly less in the metoprolol group than in the methyldopa group.

Keywords:
exercise, hypertension, methyldopa, metoprolol
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© 1979 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society
1979
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