[Therapy of affective disorders with tianeptine in patients with essential hypertension].

Tianeptine was given to 30 patients aged 39-54 years with essential hypertension and masked, preclinical (n=29) or clinically evident (n=1) depression. This was associated with improvement of clinical psychiatric parameters and data of standardized questionnaire in 29 patients, and with decrease in frequency of hypertensive crises.