Control of hypertension in nursing homes;Contrôle de l'hypertension en maison de repos et maison de repos et de soins

Revue Medicale de Bruxelles

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Thomas, J M ^a,b   Alvarez, W ^a   Mulaj, M ^a   De Breucker, S ^a   Leeman, M ^a   Pepersack, T ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Elderly; Hypertension; Nursing home; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NURSING HOME; PREVALENCE; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; MALE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PREVALENCE;

EID: 33750222446     PISSN: 00353639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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