Hypertension Treatment and Concern About Falling: Baseline Data from the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the extent of concern about falling in older adults with hypertension, whether lower blood pressure (BP) and greater use of antihypertensive medications are associated with greater concern about falling, and whether lower BP has a greater effect on concern about falling in older and more functionally impaired individuals.

Design

Secondary analysis involving cross-sectional study of baseline characteristics of participants enrolled in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT).

Setting

Approximately 100 outpatient sites.

Participants

SPRINT enrollees aged 50 and older (mean age 69) diagnosed with hypertension (N = 2,299).

Measurements

Concern about falling was determined using the shortened version of the Falls Efficac

SUBMITTER: Berlowitz DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6408956 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature