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Hypertension management in older adults requires cautious treatment initiation and appropriate medication selection to address age-related physiological changes and associated geriatric syndromes.
Hypertension management in older adults requires tailored approaches, emphasizing cautious initiation and titration of medications.
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Supports cautious hypertension strategies in older adults; leaves open need for prospective trials on specific regimens.
Prevalence of hypertension increases with advanced age; however, its awareness and control frequencies are still low. A variety of factors including physiological changes due to aging contribute to the increase in prevalence of hypertension in geriatric age group. Adverse outcomes of hypertension are much more frequent in older adults. Besides from end organ damage hypertension is linked to several geriatric syndromes namely dementia, falls, and quality of life. Diagnoses, treatment, follow up, and blood pressures goals differ in older adults and this geriatric age group needs special consideration while managing hypertension. Hypertension should be treated in older adults, but with caution and appropriate medication. The catch-phrase “Start low, go slow, but go!” should be applied for this age group. This review focuses on the special issues of hypertension in the older population.
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Arık et al. (2014) conducted a review in Hypertension. Hypertension management in older adults requires cautious treatment initiation and appropriate medication selection to address age-related physiological changes and associated geriatric syndromes.
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