Is blood pressure associated with survival over 9 years in a general population aged 85 and older?
The study investigates the association between blood pressure and 9-year survival in individuals aged 85 and older, highlighting the need to evaluate BP-lowering medications in this specific age group.
Low systolic BP may be partially related to poor general health and poor vitality, but the very old may represent a select group of individuals, and the use of BP-lowering medications needs to be evaluated in this group.
Rastas et al. (Thu,) studied this question.