Why the study?
Does antihypertensive drug therapy provide protective effects in hypertensive patients over 60 years of age?
Does antihypertensive drug therapy provide protective effects in hypertensive patients over 60 years of age?
Antihypertensive therapy is protective in patients over 60, but requires careful deployment due to increased sensitivity to side effects.
Supports cautious antihypertensive use in patients over 60; leaves open optimal regimens minimizing side effects.
Controlled trials have demonstrated the protective effect of antihypertensive drug therapy in subjects over 60 years of age. Elderly patients are often peculiarly sensitive to the side-effects of some antihypertensive drugs, which must therefore be deployed with especial care in this age-group. The widely-supposed differential benefits and acceptability of various drug classes in the elderly have been shown to have been inferred often from inadequate evidence. These aspects require further study. The already large elderly hypertensive population will continue to expand, thus raising important, problematic, but rewarding, therapeutic and economic issues.
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James I. Robertson (1989) studied this question.
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