Screening for Hypertension in an Elderly Population: Report from the Dunedin Program
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 29 (3), 123-125
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1981.tb01973.x
Abstract
The effect of screening for hypertension in a geriatric screening program for a large ambulatory elderly population in Dunedin, Florida [USA], over a 3 yr period was studied. Of the 4247 participants initially screened, 39% had some form of hypertension; 15.6% of these had not received any form of treatment. At the time of the 1st yr follow-up, the proportion of participants with treated, controlled hypertension had increased from 14.7-21%. These data support the value of hypertension screening among persons over 65 yr of age.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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