Cost-effectiveness analysis of three different drugs for essential hypertension

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the economic effectiveness of different therapeutic regimens for essential hypertension.METHODS 106 patients with first and second phase hypertension and without serious heart,brain and kidney complication were divided into 3 groups.Each group was given different drugs,Agroup:captopril+simvastatin+instructions(38cases),Bgroup:betaloc+simvastatin+instructions(33cases),Cgroup:plendil+simvastatin+instructions(35c-ases).All the drugs were taken orally.The treatment time was 10wk.RESULTS The costs of A,B,C regimens were RMB 3596.50、3671 90、3885.40 Yuans and the effective rates were 86.84%、90.91%、97.14%,respectively.CONCLUSION According to the results of cost-effectiveness analysis,Bgroup:is the best choice among the three therapeutic reg-imens.