Antihypertensive Prescribing Cascades as High-Priority Targets for Deprescribing

JAMA Intern Med. 2020 May 1;180(5):651-652. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.7082.

Authors

Timothy S Anderson^{1

2}, Michael A Steinman^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
⁴ Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.

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MeSH terms

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Antihypertensive Agents / therapeutic use
Calcium Channel Blockers
Deprescriptions*
Diuretics
Humans
Hypertension* / drug therapy
Inappropriate Prescribing / prevention & control

Substances

Antihypertensive Agents
Calcium Channel Blockers
Diuretics

Grants and funding

P01 AG066605/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States