Effects of low blood pressure in cognitively impaired elderly patients treated with antihypertensive drugs

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 578-585

  Mossello, Enrico ^a   Pieraccioli, Mariachiara ^a   Nesti, Nicola ^a   Bulgaresi, Matteo ^a   Lorenzi, Chiara ^a   Caleri, Veronica ^b   Tonon, Elisabetta ^b   Cavallini, M Chiara ^a   Baroncini, Caterina ^a   Di Bari, Mauro ^a   Baldasseroni, Samuele ^a   Cantini, Claudia ^b   Biagini, Carlo A ^b   Marchionni, Niccolò ^a   Ungar, Andrea ^a  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale 3   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE COURSE; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ITALY; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; ITALY; MALE; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84928175155     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.8164     Document Type: Article

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