Exercise capacity and all-cause mortality in male veterans with hypertension aged ≥70 years

Hypertension

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-35

  Faselis, Charles ^a,c   Doumas, Michael ^a,c   Pittaras, Andreas ^a,c   Narayan, Puneet ^a,c   Myers, Jonathan ^d   Tsimploulis, Apostolos ^a   Kokkinos, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hypertension; mortality

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FITNESS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLIC EQUIVALENT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WORKLOAD;

HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RISK; VETERANS;

EID: 84902533020     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.03510     Document Type: Article

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