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Hypertensive hospitalized patients often are discharged with changes in their prior outpatient medications when their blood pressures (BPs) are elevated during the hospitalization. In this retrospective study, researchers determined how often older men who were hospitalized for noncardiac conditions were discharged with intensified antihypertensive drug treatment.
Participants were 15,000 men (median age, 76) who were admitted to a U.S. Veterans Affairs hospital from 2011 through 2013. Of the 14% who were discharged with intensified antihypertensive drug treatment, 52% had well-controlled preadmission BP (<140 mm Hg systolic; <90 mm Hg diastolic). In adjusted analysis, elevated inpatient BP was associated with excess risk for intensified ant…