Implications of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring substudies on the interpretation of clinical trials in hypertension: Should the threshold for drug therapy be lower in older patients?

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 703-705

  Myers, Martin G ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; PLACEBO;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; OFFICE VISITS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; WHITE COAT HYPERTENSION;

EID: 80053570534     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2011.00505.x     Document Type: Note

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