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What is the blood pressure goal for the elder patient 75 years of age or older?
Current cardiology reports - 1 Dec 2011
Sander Gary E, Giles Thomas D
Abstract excerpt
High blood pressure (BP), once believed to represent a normal and progressive component of the aging process, is now recognized as a manifestation of structural and physiologic abnormalities of arterial function. Two phenotypes exist in the older patient: elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) with a normal pulse pressure (PP), and elevated SBP with an increased PP. Elevated SBP...
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