Reexamining the effect of antihypertensive medications on falls in old age

Hypertension

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 183-189

  Lipsitz, Lewis A ^a,b,c   Habtemariam, Daniel ^a   Gagnon, Margaret ^a   Iloputaife, Ikechukwu ^a   Sorond, Farzaneh ^c,d   Tchalla, Achille E ^e   Dantoine, Thierry F ^e   Travison, Thomas G ^a,b,c  

^a Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

aged; angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors; antihypertensive agents; blood flow velocity; calcium channel blockers

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

AGED; AGING; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY LIVING; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; HOME ACCIDENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DIURETICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84942743817     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.05513     Document Type: Article

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