{"id":6680,"date":"2021-01-18T12:39:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:17:03","slug":"blood-pressure-control-in-older-people","status":"publish","type":"in-un-flash","link":"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/en\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood pressure control in older people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In a recent Editorial, Mattace-Raso e Rajkumar discussed the current evidences about blood pressure (BP) control in elderly people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Arterial hypertension (AH) is a very well known risk factor for cardiovascular disease and dementia. However, the possible benefits of BP lowering in very old patients are less clear. While the achievement of BP control seems to lower morbidity and mortality also in subjects older than 80 years of age, which target should be chosen is still a matter of debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">On one side, clinical trials suggest a potential advantage from a more aggressive strategy; conversely, data from large observational cohorts suggest that aiming to BP&lt; 130\/80 mmHg might lead to an excess of all-cause mortality. According to these observations, international guidelines suggest not to set the BP target lower than 130\/80 in older people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In this Editorial, the relevance of taking into account the whole complexity of the patient is underlined, since subjects of the same age might be very different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In conclusion, the authors suggest to comprehensively consider the patient, perform adequate BP measurements, if needed in the standing position, and achieve BP levels of 140\/90 mmHg only when well tolerated. For the population &gt;80 years, a target on 150\/90 mmHg (standing position) may be more appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>curated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/chi-siamo\/persone\/mattia-bellan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mattia Bellan<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Source<\/h3>\n<p>Francesco Mattace-Raso, Chakravarthi Rajkumar, <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ageing\/article\/50\/1\/59\/5920511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. Blood pressure management in older people<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Age and Ageing<\/em>, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 59\u201361,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ageing\/afaa203\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ageing\/afaa203<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-6680","in-un-flash","type-in-un-flash","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blood pressure control in older people | Aging Project Uniupo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a recent editorial published in Age and Ageing, authors discuss current evidences about blood pressure (BP) control in elderly people.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blood pressure control in older people\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a recent editorial published in Age and Ageing, authors discuss current evidences about blood pressure (BP) control in elderly people.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aging Project Uniupo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-03T09:17:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ProjectAging\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/\",\"name\":\"Blood pressure control in older people | Aging Project Uniupo\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-18T11:39:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-03T09:17:03+00:00\",\"description\":\"In a recent editorial published in Age and Ageing, authors discuss current evidences about blood pressure (BP) control in elderly people.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/in-un-flash\/blood-pressure-control-in-older-people\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/homepage\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Blood pressure control in older people\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/\",\"name\":\"Aging Project Uniupo\",\"description\":\"Facing the challenge of longevity, through interdisciplinary research\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.agingproject.uniupo.it\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Aging Project - 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