Hypertension, Its Treatment, Frailty, Falls, and Mortality

Hypertension

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 253-254

  Bursztyn, Michael ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; FALLING; FRACTURE; FRAILTY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; MORTALITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 85021291837     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.09689     Document Type: Editorial

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