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| Age-associated changes in blood pressure in a longitudinal study of health men and women | | Author(s) | Jay D Pearson, Christopher H Morrell, Larry J Brant |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological sciences and medical sciences, vol 52A, no 3, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp M177-M183 |
| Keywords | Hypertension ; Older men ; Older women ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Current knowledge of age-associated increases in blood pressure is based primarily on unscreened population studies that may not be representative of healthy men and women. This study examined longitudinal patterns of change in blood pressure in healthy male and female volunteers from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA), a multidisciplinary study of normal human ageing conducted by the National Institute on Aging in the United States (US). The age associated changes in blood pressure were estimated in men and women aged between 17 and 97, who had been followed up for 32 years and who had been screened for health problems or medication that affect blood pressure. The findings suggests that several previously described age-associated patterns of blood pressure change partially reflect the effects of hypertension and its treatment, rather than intrinsic age changes in the blood pressure. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125212 A |
| Classmark | CQQ: BC: BD: 3J: 7T |
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