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TL;DR: In elderly people with isolated systolic hypertension, antihypertensive treatment was associated with a lower incidence of dementia and if 1000 hypertensive patients were treated with anti Hypertensive drugs for 5 years 19 cases of dementia might be prevented.

TL;DR: The extended follow-up of Syst-Eur patients reinforces the evidence that blood pressure–lowering therapy initiated with a long-acting dihydropyridine protects against dementia in older patients with systolic hypertension.

TL;DR: The procedures of quality assurance set up in the EPOGH study for the BP measurements resulted in a well-defined BP phenotype, which was consistent across centres, and should be planned at the design stage of a project involving BP measurement and implemented from its very beginnings until the end.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the calcium channel blocker nitrendipine, given as a single antihypertensive medication, prevents cardiovascular complications in older patients with isolated systolic hypertension.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association between heart rate and its variability (HRV), and gender, age, posture, breathing frequency, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, family history of hypertension and various lifestyle factors, such as smoking, alcohol and coffee consumption and physical activity.