Population
59,867 Japanese hypertensive patients who received a prescription for one or more antihypertensive drugs as…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Observed age differences in CCB vs ARB prescribing should not change practice; hypothesis-generating for drivers of age-stratified choices.
Real-world data from Japan shows age-related differences in antihypertensive prescribing, with older patients (≥75 years) more likely to receive calcium channel blockers and loop diuretics and less likely to receive ARBs compared to younger patients.
Ishida et al. (2018) studied this question.
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