Are postprandial and orthostatic blood pressure changes reproducible and affected by chronic cardiovascular medications in older nursing-home patients?
In older nursing-home patients, postprandial and orthostatic blood pressure changes are reproducible, distinct phenomena that appear unaffected by chronic use of potentially hypotensive medications.
Patterns of systolic BP response to meals or postural change are reproducible. BP responses to meals and postural change seem to be unaffected by potentially hypotensive medications in chronic users. Postprandial hypotension is distinct from orthostatic hypotension, occurring more commonly than orthostatic hypotension and infrequently together in the same patients.
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