28/04/2011

ACCFAHA 2011 Expert Consensus Document on Hypertension in the Elderly.

Por: Robert A. Harrington, MD, FACC, Chair, et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 57, No. 20, 2011. This information is current as of April 28, 2011.

This document has been developed as an expert consensus document by the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), and the American Heart Association (AHA), in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), the American Society of Hypertension (ASH), the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC), the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), and the European Society of Hypertension (ESH).

This document was written with the intent to be a complete reference at the time of publication on the topic of managing hypertension in the elderly. Given the length of the document, the writing committee included this executive summary to provide a quick reference for the busy clinician