Coordinating drug use and exercise in elderly hypertensives.

In the elderly hypertensive who maintains an active lifestyle, exercise and medication can interact due to age-related changes, resulting in reduced therapeutic effect. Underlying physiologic principles and indications for exercise therapy in geriatric hypertension are discussed as an aid toward deriving the greatest benefit and fewest side effects from concomitant drug therapy in non-sedentary elderly hypertensives, an expanding patient subgroup.