Results of treatment of the elderly hypertensive.
Data from several long-term clinical trials, including the European Working Party on Hypertension in the Elderly, indicate that lowering blood pressure in patients 60 years of age and older is beneficial when those patients have diastolic/systolic hypertension. Overall cardiovascular complications are reduced, and the incidence of congestive heart failure and cerebrovascular complications is decreased. Diuretics--with or without a potassium-sparing component--were used as initial therapy in these major clinical trials. The results of these studies provide a basis for treating elderly hypertensive patients over the age of 60.
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Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
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