Morbidity and mortality in the Swedish Trial in Old Patients with Hypertension (STOP-Hypertension)

The Lancet

Volumn 338, Issue 8778, 1991, Pages 1281-1285

  Dahlof B ^a   Hansson, L ^a   Lindholm, L H ^b   Schersten B ^b   Ekbom, T ^b   Wester, P O ^c  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ATENOLOL; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; METOPROLOL; PINDOLOL; PLACEBO;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIURETICS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0025942936     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)92589-T     Document Type: Article

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