No evidence that frailty modifies the positive impact of antihypertensive treatment in very elderly people: an investigation of the impact of frailty upon treatment effect in the HYpertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET) study, a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of antihypertensives in people with hypertension aged 80 and over

BACKGROUND: Treatment for hypertension with antihypertensive medication has been shown to reduce stroke, cardiovascular events, and mortality in older adults, but there is concern that such treatment may not be appropriate in frailer older adults. To investigate whether there is an interaction betwe...

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Publicado no:BMC Med
Main Authors: Warwick, Jane, Falaschetti, Emanuela, Rockwood, Kenneth, Mitnitski, Arnold, Thijs, Lutgarde, Beckett, Nigel, Bulpitt, Christopher, Peters, Ruth
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: BioMed Central 2015
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4404571/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25880068
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0328-1
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