Secondary stroke prevention strategies for the oldest patients: Possibilities and challenges

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 209-230

  Bushnell, Chery D ^a   Colón Emeric, Cathleen S ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID PLUS DIPYRIDAMOLE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; APIXABAN; ATORVASTATIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DIURETIC AGENT; FOLIC ACID; GEMFIBROZIL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IBUPROFEN; INDAPAMIDE; IRBESARTAN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PERINDOPRIL; PLACEBO; PRAVASTATIN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RIVAROXABAN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SIMVASTATIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; WARFARIN;

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTHRITIS; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRADYCARDIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FRAIL ELDERLY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LIVER TOXICITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE TOXICITY; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIOPERATIVE BLEEDING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING CESSATION; STENT; STROKE; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; STROKE;

EID: 64849097606     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200926030-00003     Document Type: Review

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