Is Less More When Treating BP in Older Adults? - Frankly Speaking EP 291

Credits: 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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Overview: Concerns have been raised over guideline recommendations for lowering systolic blood pressure (BP) to 60 years. To achieve such targets often requires intensive BP treatments, which can result in harms from syncope or falls. Join us to review the results of a recently published meta-analysis done to estimate the time needed to potentially derive clinical benefit from such BP treatments in patients 60 years and older. 

Episode resource links:

• JAMA Intern Med. 2022;182(6):660-667. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.1657

Guest: Robert A. Baldor, MD

Music Credit: Richard Onorato