Antihypertensive medicines utilization: A decade-long nationwide study of octogenarians, nonagenarians and centenarians

摘要

AimGaining an insight into the utilization of antihypertensive medicines against a background of evolving hypertension treatment guidelines that might not be relevant to the oldest old is important. The aim of the present study was to characterize the overall trends in the utilization of antihypertensive medicines in the oldest old by therapeutic class and chemical type, stratified by age and sex over a decade.