Deprescribing antihypertensive medications may help reduce cognitive decline in nursing home residents, particularly those with dementia, and long-term care providers should weigh the risks when ...

Antihypertensive medication deprescribing may benefit elderly individuals living in long-term care facilities by limiting the risk of cognitive decline, according to data from the Veterans Health ...

About The Study: The findings of this study indicated that initiation of antihypertensive medication was associated with elevated risks of fractures and falls among older long-term care nursing home ...

Deprescribing antihypertensive medications is associated with a 12% lower likelihood of cognitive decline in older nursing home residents, a new study suggests. The association was strongest among ...

Antihypertensive medications, particularly diuretics, can lead to increased fracture risk for older adults, so healthcare providers should weigh those risks when prescribing them, authors of a new ...

A meta-analysis suggests adverse events are often falsely attributed to BP-lowering drugs, leaving patients undertreated.

Blood pressure medications work in different ways to bring blood pressure to within an optimal range. Read on for more.

Compared with usual care, stepping down antihypertensive therapy in nursing home patients aged 80 years and older did not yield any reduction in major adverse events or correlate with any other ...

Among older adults with frailty, evidence on the benefits and risks of discontinuing antihypertensive drugs is limited. New research findings are summarized in a short video.

The Global Hypertension Report by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that 1.4 billion people were living with ...