The oldest old with hypertension: Treat or not treat? [7]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 136-137

  Cheng, Huai Yong ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEATH; HEALTH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33845970220     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.01012.x     Document Type: Letter

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