By Professor Ruth Peters

Journal articles

Beckett NS; Peters R; Fletcher AE; Staessen JA; Liu L; Dumitrascu D; Stoyanovsky V; Antikainen RL; Nikitin Y; Anderson C; Belhani A; Forette F; Rajkumar C; Thijs L; Banya W; Bulpitt CJ, 2008, 'Treatment of hypertension in patients 80 years of age or older', New England Journal of Medicine, 358, pp. 1887 - 1898, http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa0801369

Peters R; Beckett N; Forette F; Tuomilehto J; Clarke R; Ritchie C; Waldman A; Walton I; Poulter R; Ma S; Comsa M; Burch L; Fletcher A; Bulpitt C, 2008, 'Incident dementia and blood pressure lowering in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial cognitive function assessment (HYVET-COG): a double-blind, placebo controlled trial', Lancet Neurology, 7, pp. 683 - 689, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(08)70143-1

Peters R; Martin-Marero C; Pinto E; Beckett N, 2007, 'Hypertension in the very elderly', Future Medicine, 3, pp. 517 - 525

Beckett N; Peters R, 2007, 'Diagnosis and treatment of stable angina in older people', Prescriber, 18, pp. 38 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psb.46

Bulpitt CJ; Peters R; Staessen JA; Thijs L; De Vernejoul MC; Fletcher AE; Beckett NS, 2006, 'Fracture risk and the use of a diuretic (indapamide sr) ± perindopril: A substudy of the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET)', Trials, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-7-33

Peters R; Beckett N; Nunes M; Fletcher A; Forette F; Bulpitt C, 2006, 'A substudy protocol of the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial assessing cognitive decline and dementia incidence (HYVET-COG): An ongoing randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial', Drugs and Aging, 23, pp. 83 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.2165/00002512-200623010-00008

Peters R, 2006, 'Ageing and the brain', Postgraduate Medical Journal, 82, pp. 84 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.2005.036665

Pinto E; Bulpitt C; Beckett N; Peters R; Staessen JA; Rajkumar C, 2006, 'Rationale and methodology of monitoring ambulatory blood pressure and arterial compliance in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial', Blood Pressure Monitoring, 11, pp. 3 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.mbp.0000184965.30220.10

Dumitraşcui D; Comşa M; Enăchescu V; Jianu D; Lazăr DJ; Moisin MD; David L; Winston B; Peters R; Beckett N; Fletcher A; Bulpitt CJ, 2006, 'Romanian subjects entered in the hypertension in the very elderly trial (HYVET)', Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine, 44, pp. 389 - 396

Peters R, 2005, 'A longevidade e o cérebro (longevity and the brain)', O Mundo da Saúde, 29, pp. 547 - 555

Nishiwaki Y; Breeze E; Smeeth L; Bulpitt CJ; Peters R; Fletcher AE, 2004, 'Validity of the Clock-Drawing Test as a screening tool for cognitive impairment in the elderly', American Journal of Epidemiology, 160, pp. 797 - 807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwh288

Hickson M; Bulpitt C; Nunes M; Peters R; Cooke J; Nicholl C; Frost G, 2004, 'Does additional feeding support provided by health care assistants improve nutritional status and outcome in acutely ill older in-patients? - A randomised control trial', Clinical Nutrition, 23, pp. 69 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0261-5614(03)00090-6

Bulpitt CJ; Beckett NS; Cooke J; Dumitrascu DL; Gil-Extremera B; Nachev C; Nunes M; Peters R; Staessen JA; Thijs L, 2003, 'Results of the pilot study for the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial', Journal of Hypertension, 21, pp. 2409 - 2417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004872-200312000-00030

Peters R, 2001, 'The prevention of dementia', Journal of Cardiovascular Risk, 8, pp. 253 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00043798-200110000-00002

Peters R, 2001, 'Quality-of-life measures as predictors of mortality and morbidity', Current Hypertension Reports, 3, pp. 458 - 461, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11906-001-0006-x

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