Are some antihypertensives more prone to induce hypotensive side effects than others? [2]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 626-628

  Burton, Lauren ^a   Norton, Michael ^a   Newton, Julia L ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NITRATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZZINESS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8644285435     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afh196     Document Type: Letter

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