An early drop in systolic blood pressure predicts a positive tilt table test in elderly patients with unexplained falls or syncope [1]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-185

  Yiu, Derek ^a   Gieroba, Zbigniew ^b   Hall, Karen ^a   Mackintosh, Sharon ^b   Russell, Andrew ^b   Mangoni, Arduino A ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALL RISK; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TILT TABLE TEST;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 33644983390     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj043     Document Type: Letter

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