Expert Consensus Document
ACCF/AHA 2011 Expert Consensus Document on Hypertension in the Elderly: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents Developed in Collaboration With the American Academy of Neurology, American Geriatrics Society, American Society for Preventive Cardiology, American Society of Hypertension, American Society of Nephrology, Association of Black Cardiologists, and European Society of Hypertension

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ACCF/AHA Expert Consensus Documents
antihypertensive agents
elderly
risk assessment
hypertension comorbidities
hypertension pathophysiology
hypertension therapy

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This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees and the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in October 2010 and the governing bodies of the American Academy of Neurology, American Geriatrics Society, American Society for Preventive Cardiology, American Society of Hypertension, American Society of Nephrology, Association of Black Cardiologists, and European Society of Hypertension in March 2011. For the purpose of complete transparency, disclosure information for the ACCF Board of Trustees, the board of the convening organization of this document, is available at: http://www.cardiosource.org/ACC/About-ACC/Leadership/Officers-and-Trustees.aspx.

ACCF board members with relevant relationships with industry to the document may review and comment on the document but may not vote on approval.

The American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that this document be cited as follows: Aronow WS, Fleg JL, Pepine CJ, Artinian NT, Bakris G, Brown AS, Ferdinand KC, Forciea MA, Frishman WH, Jaigobin C, Kostis JB, Mancia G, Oparil S, Ortiz E, Reisin E, Rich MW, Schocken DD, Weber MA, Wesley DJ. ACCF/AHA 2011 expert consensus document on hypertension in the elderly: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents. J Am Coll Cardiol 2011;57:2037–114.

This article has been copublished in Circulation, the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension, the Journal of Clinical Hypertension, and the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology.

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American College of Cardiology Foundation Representative;

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute;

American Heart Association Representative;

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Association of Black Cardiologists Representative;

American College of Physicians Representative;

American Academy of Neurology Representative;

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European Society of Hypertension Representative;

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American Society of Nephrology Representative;

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American Geriatrics Society Representative;

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American Society for Preventive Cardiology Representative;

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American Society of Hypertension Representative;

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ACCF Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents Representative.