High blood pressure and resilience to physical and cognitive decline in the oldest old: The leiden 85-plus study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2014-2019

  Sabayan, Behnam ^a   Oleksik, Anna M ^a   Maier, Andrea B ^a   Van Buchem, Mark A ^a   Poortvliet, Rosalinde K E ^a   De Ruijter, Wouter ^a   Gussekloo, Jacobijn ^a   De Craen, Anton J M ^a   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

activities of daily living; blood pressure; cognitive function; oldest old

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84869129545     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04203.x     Document Type: Article

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