A study of risk factors and complications in elderly hypertensive subjects
CONCLUSION: Sedentary lifestyle (physically less active) and anthropometric measures like overweight and obesity, abnormal waist circumference, and abnormal waist hip ratio were all identified as remarkable risk for hypertension. Myocardial infarction (20%), stroke (14%), and heart failure (12%) were the chart buster complications of hypertension in the vulnerable geriatric population.PMID:34322417 | PMC:PMC8284235 | DOI:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1959_20
Source: Primary Care - Category: Primary Care Authors: T Y Sri Hari T Y Sree Sudha Anjaly Mary Varghese K S B S Krishna Sasanka Pugazhenthan Thangaraju Source Type: research
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