Treatment of combined hypertension and orthostatic hypotension in older adults: More questions than answers still remain

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 557-560

  Kearney, Fiona ^a   Moore, Alan ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDITORIAL; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRESCRIPTION; PROSTATE DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 68849131036     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.09.51     Document Type: Editorial

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