( According to reseasrches drugs used to...)Hypertension drugs could lower Disability,Health

According to reseasrches, drugs used to treat hypertension could delay muscle loss and disability in seniors. Dr.Graziano Onder, research associate at University of Hopkins has suggested new, beneficial effects of (Angiotensin Converting Enzyme) ACE-inhibitor //drugs, which are widely used for hypertension, beneficial effects on muscle strength and overall physical performance in older adults. This research must be confirmed in future clinical trials.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved such ACE inhibitors as Accupril, Captopril, Altace and Vasotec. The retrospective study at Hokins, published in the medical journal The Lancet, involved analysis of three years of data from 1995 to 1999 on 650 hypertensive and partially disabled women over 60 who participated in the Women's Health and Aging Study, a project of the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md.

The women on continuous ACE inhibitor therapy showed slower loss of walking speed and muscle strength compared to those using other hypertension drugs or using none. During repeated testing over the three-year period, the subjects walking speeds were measured and they were graded on muscle strength.

Correlating that data to pharmaceutical records, the researchers found women on continuous ACE inhibitor therapy had a lower average decline in muscle strength of 2.5 pounds over the three years, as compared to intermittent users of other antihypertensive drugs, at 7.5 pounds and non-users at minus 8.1 pounds.

Continuous ACE inhibitor users had a smaller loss in walking speed -- sixth-tenths of an inch per second compared with intermittent users of ACE inhibitors at 5.3 inches per second, 6.1 inches per second for intermittent users of other antihypertensive drugs and 7 inches per second for non-users.

"If these findings can be confirmed in randomized controlled trials, ACE inhibitors could not only be used as first-line treatment of older adults with h
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