Hypertensive treatment in the elderly

(A) Elder patients are less compliant than young > Hypertensive patients who are over age 65, and particularly those over age 75, offer substantial challenges to the physician.> Several studies have reported that healthy elderly patients, whether male or female, who are treated with relatively modest doses of antihypertensive agents show a substantial reduction in strokes and stroke-related deaths. This is true whether the patient has systolic and diastolic hypertension or isolated systolic hypertension.