Association of Blood Pressure and Gait Speed in Hypertensive Older Adults: The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT)
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- abstract
- Objectives: Hypertension and mobility impairment are both common in older adults; however, the relationship between hypertension and mobility in community-dwelling older adults is not well understood. The objective of this study was to examine the association of blood pressure measures and mobility assessed by gait speed in hypertensive older adults.
- subject
- gait speed
- hypertension
- mobility
- older adults
- physical function
- contributor
- Sink, Kaycee (committee chair)
- Pajewski, Nicholas (committee member)
- Williamson, Jeff (committee member)
- Applegate, William (committee member)
- Kritchevsky, Stephen (committee member)
- Mihalko, Shannon (committee member)
- date
- 2014-09-10T08:35:16Z (accessioned)
- 2016-09-10T08:30:12Z (available)
- 2014 (issued)
- degree
- Clinical and Population Translational Sciences (discipline)
- embargo
- 2016-09-10 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39389 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- Association of Blood Pressure and Gait Speed in Hypertensive Older Adults: The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT)
- type
- Thesis