Baseline characteristics of participants in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET)

Blood Pressure

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 17-22

  Bulpitt, Christopher John ^a   Beckett, Nigel Stanletanley ^a   Peters, Ruth ^a   Banya, Winston ^a   Liu, Lisheng ^b   Wang, Ji Guang ^c   Stoyanovsky, Vassil ^d   Dumitrascu, Dan ^e   Nikitin, Yuri ^f   Staessen, Jan Albertlbert ^g   Burch, Lisa ^a   Fletcher, Astrid Elizabeth ^h  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Beijing Hypertension League Institute   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d National Transport Multi Profile Hospital Tsar Boris III Cardiorheumatology Clinic   (Bulgaria)

^e IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^f INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Diabetes mellitus; Hypertension; Lifestyle characteristics; Serum uric acid; Very elderly

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; INDAPAMIDE; PERINDOPRIL; PLACEBO; URIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; UREA;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; HEMATOCRIT; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDAPAMIDE; LIPIDS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERINDOPRIL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SMOKING; UREA; URIC ACID;

EID: 67650126100     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08037050902836779     Document Type: Article

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