Antihypertensive overtreatment in people 80 years old and older

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To study the proportion of patients older than 80 years old with hypertension and pharmacological overtreatment.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Cross-sectional simulation study, including 281 patients older than 80 years old of primary prevention, randomly selected, with good control of hypertension (systolic blood pressure<150mmHg, diastolic blood pressure<90mmHg), treated with a maximum of 3 medications. Overtreatment was considered if at least one medication could be removed and good control persisted, calculating how the blood pressure would raise with Law's meta-analysis, which estimates blood pressure reductions by pre-treatment levels, number and dose of medications.

RESULTS: The average age was 85.3 years (64.8% women). A percentage of 33.6 were taking one medication, 46.3% 2 and 22.1% 3, with the most prescribed being thiazides (69.4%), ACE inhibitors (51.3%), ARBs (23.4%), calcium antagonists (21%) and beta blockers (19.6%). Overtreatment was 90.7%, with 2 medications being able to be removed in 63.1% of cases and 3 in 43.1%. Polypharmacy (OR 2.47; 95% CI 1.07-5.69; P=.033) was associated with a greater likely removal of at least one medication.

CONCLUSIONS: The proportion of patients with overtreatment is high. Changing good control criteria could contribute to a reasoned deprescription.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:150

Enthalten in:

Medicina clinica - 150(2018), 6 vom: 23. März, Seite 220-223

Sprache:

Englisch

Weiterer Titel:

Sobretratamiento antihipertensivo en mayores de 80 años

Beteiligte Personen:

Baena Díez, José Miguel [VerfasserIn]
López Maldonado, Nerea [VerfasserIn]
Navarro Guiu, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Alcayde Claveria, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
García Lareo, Manel [VerfasserIn]
Pérez Orcero, Almudena [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ancianos
Antihypertensive Agents
Deprescripción
Deprescription
Elderly
Hipertensión
Hypertension
Journal Article
Overtreatment
Sobretratamiento
Tratamiento y control
Treatment and control

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 09.09.2019

Date Revised 09.09.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.medcli.2017.06.061

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM275394492