Hypertension in the elderly: essentially different
GM, 37, February, 2007
Thiazide-type diuretics and CCBs are recommended as first-line therapy for hypertension in
elderly patients, based on the assumption they tend to have low renin essential hypertension and
proven efficacy; yet the prevalence of chronic kidney disease and isolated systolic hypertension
raises the possibility antihypertensive drugs that act through the renin-angiotensin system or by
enhancing endothelial function may also be useful, as Dr David Bennett-Jones explain
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