Article
High blood pressure in older persons: a high risk special population.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique - 1 Jan 2000
Flack J M
Abstract excerpt
Blood pressure (BP), particularly systolic blood pressure (SBP), rises with advancing age. Isolated systolic hypertension is the most common type of hypertension (HTN) phenotype after age 70. Moreover, at similar BP levels the absolute risk for CVD is several fold higher in elderly than in young...
Topics
- Age Factors
- Aged
- Antihypertensive Agents
- Clinical Trials as Topic
- Comorbidity
- Coronary Disease
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Phenotype
- Systole