Management of Hypertension in the Elderly

THERE is much confusion over what constitutes appropriate management of hypertension in the elderly.1 2 3 4 5 Indeed, there is controversy about how one should define the terms elderly and hypertension. Bearing in mind that chronologic and biologic aging are different, one must recognize that differentiation of the two is not usually practicable. In this paper we use the chronologic index of aging and arbitrarily define the elderly as those aged 65 and over. Employing this imperfect criterion, we exclude a group who are apparently prematurely aged, while including the so-called biologically elite who show little evidence of aging into their eighth or . . .