Why the study?
Does intensive pharmacologic antihypertensive treatment improve outcomes in hospitalized older adults with elevated blood pressure?
Does intensive pharmacologic antihypertensive treatment improve outcomes in hospitalized older adults with elevated blood pressure?
Intensive inpatient blood pressure management in older adults without end-organ damage is associated with increased adverse events and should be avoided pending randomized trials.
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May increase adverse events in older inpatients; leaves open whether intensive lowering improves outcomes in RCTs.
Anderson et al. (2023) studied this question.
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