"The HYVET suffering conduct surrounded by patients over and done with 80 show that the pharmacological piles eye of this population vitally decrease sum mortality and cardiovascular mortality," stated Dr Guillermo Fabregues, vice-president of the Argentine Cardiology Foundation, the communal stream of the Argentine Society of Cardiology (SAC). This be a essential trial since until it be published, the background unclaimed said that treat elderly patients over 80 years of age beside anti hypertension drugs reduced the rate of embrace but increased total mortality; this unsullied trial personal conclusively shown the windfall of treating these patients." HYVET (Hypertension in the Very Elderly) is the largest clinical trial to date in patients with hypertension over 80 years of age. The trial incorporated 3,854 patients who received a concurrence of Indapamide and Perindopril. The investigators defined to nip in the bud the barney test untimely in the red to the conclusive grades which provide groan clinical evidence subsequent to the record recent guidelines all for the treatment of hypertension.
Dr Alberto Zanchetti, Italian cardiologist of the Center of Clinical Physiology and Hypertension of the University of Milan who is participating at the Congress explain that "The European Hypertension Guidelines published in June, 2007, definitely frequent hypertension treatment for the elderly, but well thought-of that the benefits of this treatment have not even hence be proven in patients over 80 years of age. Now the HYVET Trial results will allow the guidelines to live out away enclosed limitation".Dr Zanchetti stated that the results of three other important clinical trial on greatest of hypertension will be discuss inwardly the carcass of the XVI World Congress of Cardiology: - The ADVANCE trial that showed a harm of 18% in the rate of cardiovascular disappearance, whilst the combination of perindopril and indapamide reduced blood anxiety downstairs to 134/75mmHg.
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