Hypertensive target-organ damage in the very elderly

Hypertension

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 130-135

  O'Sullivan, Cianán ^a,b,c   Duggan, Joe ^a,b   Lyons, Simon ^a   Thornton, John ^a   Lee, Michael ^a   O'Brien, Eoin ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b Department of Pediatric Cardiology   (Ireland)

^c HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albuminuria; Blood pressure monitoring, ambulatory; Cerebrovascular disorders; Elderly; Hypertrophy, left ventricular; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN INJURY; PERIVENTRICULAR HYPERSENSITIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SENESCENCE; TARGET ORGAN; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; ALBUMINURIA; BRAIN CORTEX; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBUMINURIA; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; PULSATILE FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0042767508     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000084050.73533.C5     Document Type: Article

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