Medication management of chronic heart failure in older adults

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 765-782

  Alagiakrishnan, Kannayiram ^a   Banach, Maciej ^b   Jones, Linda G ^c,d   Ahmed, Ali ^c,d   Aronow, Wilbert S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d and Clinical Center   (United States)

^e NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADENOSINE A1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BUCINDOLOL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CANDESARTAN; CANDESARTAN HEXETIL; CAPTOPRIL; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; EPLERENONE; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IRBESARTAN; IVABRADINE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; MEMBRANE METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE; METOLAZONE; MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; SPIRONOLACTONE; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; VALSARTAN; VASOPRESSIN ANTAGONIST;

ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; COUGHING; DIURETIC THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PHARMACOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS;

EID: 84890132943     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40266-013-0105-9     Document Type: Article

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