| Management of Hypertension in the Elderly |
| Aggressive treatment of older patients with hypertension has been largely avoided due to lack of outcome data and concern over potential side effects by adding medications. And many clinicians are still unwilling to treat elderly patients with hypertension; they believe it will increase mortality. Moreover, rigorous study of hypertension control in the very old (those aged 80 years and older) has been nonexistent. But a 2008 study changed the landscape. |
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Min-Yen Han, M.D. |