Romanian subjects entered in the hypertension in the very elderly trial (HYVET).

The baseline characteristics, possibly related to cardiovascular outcome, in 94 Romanian hypertensive men and 168 women over the age of 80 entered into the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET) were compared with those in 725 men and 1128 women entered into the trial in the rest of Western and Eastern Europe (mainly Russia and Bulgaria). There was a tendency for more women in the Romanian subjects (66.7% versus 60.