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. 2008 Aug;57(8):506-7.

Does treating hypertension in the very elderly improve outcomes?

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PMID: 18697287

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Does treating hypertension in the very elderly improve outcomes?

No authors listed. J Fam Pract. 2008 Aug.

. 2008 Aug;57(8):506-7.

PMID: 18697287

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Treatment of hypertension in patients 80 years of age or older.
Beckett NS, Peters R, Fletcher AE, Staessen JA, Liu L, Dumitrascu D, Stoyanovsky V, Antikainen RL, Nikitin Y, Anderson C, Belhani A, Forette F, Rajkumar C, Thijs L, Banya W, Bulpitt CJ; HYVET Study Group. Beckett NS, et al. N Engl J Med. 2008 May 1;358(18):1887-98. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0801369. Epub 2008 Mar 31. N Engl J Med. 2008. PMID: 18378519 Clinical Trial.

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