Underutilization of aspirin, beta blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, and lipid-lowering drugs and overutilization of calcium channel blockers in older persons with coronary artery disease in an academic nursing home

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Ghosh, Subrato ^a   Ziesmer, Valerie ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036262428     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/57.6.M398     Document Type: Article

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