This study updates and expands explicit criteria defining potentially inappropriate
medication use by the elderly. Additional goals were to address whether adverse outcomes …

The dental team plays an integral role in safeguarding the general health of patients. Dental
health care workers should be able to recognize risk factors associated with hypertension …

Isolated systolic hypertension (ISH)[systolic blood pressure (SBP)≥ 160mm Hg with
diastolic blood pressure (DBP)< 90mm Hg] is the commonest form of hypertension in the …

Focuses on benefits of combination therapies for patients with hypertension. Factors to be
considered by a physician before prescribing combination drugs; Use of the Birmingham …

Until the 1980s diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was assumed to be the most relevant
haemodynamic parameter as a predictor of prognosis in hypertensive patients. Accordingly …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate in a prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled
study the effect of long-term (2-year) lisinopril treatment on cardiovascular end-organ …

BACKGROUND: Widened pulse pressure is an independent predictor of cardiovascular
outcomes in older persons. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations …

Objective To compare the efficacy and tolerability of angiotensin II (Ang II) antagonist
losartan and the β-blocker atenolol in the treatment of patients with isolated systolic …

Beta-blockers are not very effective at lowering blood pressure in elderly hypertensive
patients or in Afro-Caribbeans and these two groups represent a large proportion of people …

We compared, in a prospective double-blind randomized study, the effect of the angiotensin-
converting enzyme inhibitor quinapril (QUI) with that of triamterene/hydrochlorothiazide …