The Impact of Modern Lipid-Lowering and Antihypertensive Therapy on the Remodeling of the Carotid Arteries in Patients with Hypertension
The review presents the results of the analysis of literary sources on the possibilities of therapeutic correction of the carotid artery remodeling in hypertensive patients. Data are presented both from clinical studies and prospective multicenter randomized trials on the effect of lipid-lowering and antihypertensive therapy on carotid intima-media thickness and the development of atherosclerosis of carotid arteries. It is shown that the latest generation of statins, calcium antagonists, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor type II have the greatest antiremodeling properties.