Factors associated with antihypertensive treatment intensification and deintensification in older outpatients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

New hypertension performance measures encourage more intensive treatment in older adults. Treatment intensification includes starting new medications and increasing the dose of old ones. Medication dose is particularly important to older adults, given their vulnerability to dose-related side effects. We previously validated a standardized measure of beneficial doses tested in hypertension trials, Hypertension Daily Dose (HDD).

Aim of the study

To test whether changes in treatment intensity using HDD was associated with systolic blood pressure (SBP) and patient characteristics.

Methods

Longitudinal study of all Veterans aged ≥65 years with a diagnosis of hypertension. We defined 3 groups of risk: 1) cardiovascular risk; 2) geriatric/frail; 3) low-risk (compa

SUBMITTER: Aubert CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8254109 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature