Controversy in treating the oldest old with hypertension: Is the hypertension in the very elderly trial the final answer?: Letters to the editor

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 570-571

  Abramov, Dmitry ^a   Cheng, Huai ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INDAPAMIDE; PERINDOPRIL; PLACEBO;

AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RISK REDUCTION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDAPAMIDE; MALE; PERINDOPRIL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61449195329     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02148.x     Document Type: Article

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