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Blood Pressure Targets for Older Patients—Do Advanced Age and Frailty Really Not Matter?

In 2017, Hypertension Canada removed advanced age and frailty as considerations for caution when deciding on intensive therapy in their guidelines for the diagnosis, risk assessment, prevention, and treatment of hypertension in adults. Dementia is not mentioned. In this commentary, we review why adv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Giffin, Amanda, Madden, Kenneth M., Hogan, David B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Geriatrics Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7259922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32494337
http://dx.doi.org/10.5770/cgj.23.429
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Sumario:In 2017, Hypertension Canada removed advanced age and frailty as considerations for caution when deciding on intensive therapy in their guidelines for the diagnosis, risk assessment, prevention, and treatment of hypertension in adults. Dementia is not mentioned. In this commentary, we review why advanced age and frailty were removed, and examine what is currently known about the relationship between hypertension and both incident and prevalent dementia. We make the case that the presence of frailty (especially when severe) and dementia should be considered when deciding on intensive therapy in future iterations of Hypertension Canada guidelines.