Prognostic significance of blood pressure in frail older adults

Yasuharu Tabara^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Public Health, Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health, Shizuoka, Japan. tabara@s-sph.ac.jp.
² Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. tabara@s-sph.ac.jp.

Editorial

Yasuharu Tabara. Hypertens Res. 2022 Feb.

. 2022 Feb;45(2):378-379.

doi: 10.1038/s41440-021-00810-2. Epub 2021 Dec 16.

Yasuharu Tabara^{1

2}

¹ Graduate School of Public Health, Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health, Shizuoka, Japan. tabara@s-sph.ac.jp.
² Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. tabara@s-sph.ac.jp.

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Blood pressure, frailty status, and all-cause mortality in elderly hypertensives; The Nambu Cohort Study.
Inoue T, Matsuoka M, Shinjo T, Tamashiro M, Oba K, Kakazu M, Moromizato T, Arasaki O, Arima H. Inoue T, et al. Hypertens Res. 2022 Jan;45(1):146-154. doi: 10.1038/s41440-021-00769-0. Epub 2021 Oct 15. Hypertens Res. 2022. PMID: 34650194 Free PMC article.

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