Antihypertensive Therapy Is it Different in the Elderly?
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drugs
- Vol. 39 (Supplement) , 49-54
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00003495-199000392-00010
Abstract
Pathophysiological mechanisms of pressure elevation are different in the elderly hypertensive patient than in middle-aged or young patients. The elderly patient is characterised by a decrease in...Keywords
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