... Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, 2Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, INRCA Geriatric Department, Florence, Italy and 3Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest ... drug therapyoffers greater economic benefits for controlling isolatedsystolic hypertension in the elderly than other antihyper-tensive drug treatments. Using a decision analysis model that simulated ... and discounting on cost and effect into account in this study.ConclusionBased on our findings, antihypertensive therapy that isdiuretic-based and that includes either low-dose reserpineor atenolol...