Blood pressure medications aren't one-size-fits-all. This article talks about what types of medication are the best for you, based on what other diseases you have. The article doesn't give much information about specific drugs, though, so you'll have to find that elsewhere.

Bottom line, this article says that pharmaceutical treatments have to be considered on a case by case basis, which is not new information. But it takes a long time to say it and does so in a way that is rather dense.