"Study Suggests Caution In Sprint-Like BP Targets In Elderly" - Megan Brooks
A new analysis finds an increased risk of falls and syncope in elderly community-dwelling patients with hypertension treated to target systolic blood pressure of less than 120 mm Hg. Researchers compared the rates of injurious falls and syncope in 407 community dwelling adults 75 and older from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) with rates in 1,319 patients in the standard-care group of the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT). Usman Baber, MD, assistant professor of medicine and cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said, “These are interesting findings, suggesting a higher rate of injurious falls and syncope in a ‘real world’ cohort of older community-dwelling adults compared with those enrolled in a large-scale clinical trial.”
- Usman Baber, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Cardiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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