Management instructions for elderly patients with hypertension

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Table 1. Survey questions.

No.	Question	Patients	Physicians
Q1	Satisfaction with treatment	Are you satisfied with your physician’s treatment?	Do you think the HT treatment is satisfactory for this patient?
Q2	Involvement in treatment	Do you intend to be proactively involved in the treatment?	Do you think this patient is actively involved in their HT treatment?
Q3	Understanding of HT	Do you know of the disease called “hypertension”?	Do you think this patient clearly understands HT?
Q4	Understanding of explanation	Did you understand HT well after your physician explained it?	Do you think this patient understood your explanation of HT?
Q5	Reliance	Do you trust your physician?	Do you think a relationship has been established between you and this patient?
Q6	Antihypertensive drugs	Are you satisfied with the drug you are taking?	Are you satisfied with the effect of the antihypertensive drug on this patient?
Q7	Clinic BP	Was your clinic BP lower than it was 3 months ago?	Did the clinic BP of this patient decrease compared with 3 months ago?
Q8	Home BP	Has your home BP decreased compared with 3 months ago?	Did the home BP of this patient decrease compared with 3 months ago?
Q9	Perception of target BP	Have you ever heard about your target BP from your physician?	Have you informed the patient of his/her target systolic BP level?
Q10	Target Clinic BP	Choose the level that best fits your target BP.	What was the target BP you advised the patient to adhere to?

BP, blood pressure; HT, hypertension

Figure 1. Distribution of home early morning SBP and clinic SBP at baseline and week 12 of treatment. A) SBP values at baseline in patients <75 years old; B) SBP values at week 12 in patients <75 years old; C) SBP values at baseline in patients ≥75 years old; D) SBP values at week 12 in patients ≥75 years old. Dotted lines represent final BP targets, defined as <135 mmHg for home early morning SBP and <140 mmHg for clinic SBP. Percent values represent the proportion of patients with SBP values above or below these targets. SBP, systolic blood pressure.

Figure 2. Achievement of target blood pressures and satisfaction survey results. Patients who answered “strongly agree” or “agree” were considered to be satisfied with treatment. Patients who answered “somewhat agree”, “somewhat disagree” or “strongly disagree” were considered to be dissatisfied with treatment.

Figure 3. Patient satisfaction survey results stratified by target blood pressure achievement and patient age. Patients who answered “strongly agree” or “agree” were considered to be satisfied with treatment. Patients who answered “somewhat agree”, “somewhat disagree” or “strongly disagree” were considered to be dissatisfied with treatment.

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