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BMC Geriatrics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Antihypertensive and lipid lowering treatment in 70–74 year old individuals – predictors for treatment and blood-pressure control: a population based survey. The Hordaland Health Study (HUSK) 1 2 1 Mette Brekke* , Steinar Hunskaar and Jørund Straand Address: 1Section for General Practice, Department of General Practice and Community Health, University of Oslo, Norway and 2Section for General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Norway Email: Mette Brekke* - mette.brekke@medisin.uio.no; Steinar Hunskaar - steinar.hunskaar@isf.uib.no; Jørund Straand - jorund.straand@medisin.uio.no * Corresponding author Published: 19 October 2006 Received: 06 February 2006 Accepted: 19 October 2006 BMC Geriatrics 2006, 6:16 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-6-16 This article is available from: /1471-2318/6/16 © 2006 Brekke et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: In an elderly, community based population we aimed at investigating antihypertensive and lipid lowering medication use in relation to own and familiar cardiovascular morbidity and diabetes mellitus, as well as to lifestyle