Pharmacotherapy for hypertension in adults 60 years or older

Conclusions:

Blood pressure-lowering therapy in people with hypertension 60 years and older reduced death, strokes, and heart attacks
Benefit was similar if both upper and lower blood pressure numbers were elevated and if only the upper number was elevated
First-line treatment used in most studies was a thiazide
Magnitude of benefit in cardiovascular mortality and morbidity observed was probably greater among 60- to 79-year old patients than in very elderly patients 80 years or older