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Hypertension in the very old; prevalence, awareness, treatment and control: a cross-sectional population-based study in a Spanish municipality

BACKGROUND: Information on hypertension in the very elderly is sparse. Until recently evidence of benefits from pharmacological treatment was inconclusive. We estimated the prevalence of hypertension in subjects aged 80 or more, the proportion of awareness, treatment and control. Explanatory variabl...

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Autores principales: Aguado, Alba, López, Flora, Miravet, Sonia, Oriol, Pilar, Fuentes, M Isabel, Henares, Belén, Badia, Teresa, Esteve, Lluis, Peligro, Javier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2685385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19426484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-9-16