Blood pressure reduction in elderly: a randomised controlled trial of methyldopa
| Autor: | J R A Mitchell, G C M Watt, A H Short, M E Sprackling |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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Risk predictor Local authority law.invention Random Allocation Randomized controlled trial law Elderly population Humans Medicine Methyldopa Aged General Environmental Science Clinical Trials as Topic business.industry Cumulative mortality General Engineering General Medicine humanities Blood pressure Lying diastolic blood pressure Anesthesia Hypertension General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female business Research Article medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 283:1151-1153 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.283.6300.1151 |
| Popis: | A total of 123 out of 549 elderly residents of local authority welfare homes in Nottinghamshire were found at screening to have a standing or lying diastolic blood pressure of 100 mm Hg or more. These 123 subjects were randomly allocated to simple observation or to treatment with methyldopa. The cumulative mortality was similar in the observed and treated groups and in the normotensive group from which the subjects had been separated. Thus moderate hypertension, whether treated or not, was not a major risk predictor in the elderly population studied. |
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