Safe antihypertensive prescribing in the elderly requires incorporating frailty assessments into routine practice, despite ongoing implementation challenges and insufficient long-term data.
Highlights the need for frailty and functional assessments, pragmatic trials, and individualized goals when prescribing antihypertensives in the elderly.
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There is an increased need to incorporate frailty and functional assessments into routine practice and clinical trials. Despite growing evidence, there are still implementation challenges like insufficient robust long-term data for the frail populations. Pragmatic trials, adoption of digital solutions, and implementation of individualized goals must be the target of future research.
Passey et al. (Tue,) reported a other. Safe antihypertensive prescribing in the elderly requires incorporating frailty assessments into routine practice, despite ongoing implementation challenges and insufficient long-term data.