Geriatric Medicine

Hypertension

Questions discussed in this category

What is your systolic blood pressure target for patients over 80 with frailty and multiple comorbidities?

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Do you recommend performing cognitive testing in the clinic to determine the blood pressure target in patients 80 years or older?

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Papers discussed in this category

JAMA, 2019-02-12

Effect of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control on Probable Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA, 2019-08-13

Association of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control With Cerebral White Matter Lesions.

Drugs & aging, 2001

Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET): protocol for the main trial.

Circulation research, 2019 Mar 29

Hypertension Management in Older and Frail Older Patients.

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