New approaches to the old problems. Hypertension in the geriatric patients.

A significant increase of the elderly population over the world leads to an increasing the relevance of the problems of maintaining health and adequate medical care for geriatric patients. Timely diagnosis and treatment of chronic noncommunicable diseases, the frequency of which increases with age,...

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Published inAdvances in gerontology = Uspekhi gerontologii Vol. 33; no. 3; p. 515
Main Authors Temnikova, E A, Kondratiev, A I, Temnikov, M V
Format Journal Article
LanguageRussian
Published Russia (Federation) 2020
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Antihypertensive Agents - therapeutic use
Humans
Hypertension - diagnosis
Hypertension - epidemiology
Hypertension - therapy
Patients
Prevalence
Prognosis
antihypertensive therapy
geriatric patients
age associated changes in the cardiovascular system
hypertensive crisis
hypertension
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Summary:A significant increase of the elderly population over the world leads to an increasing the relevance of the problems of maintaining health and adequate medical care for geriatric patients. Timely diagnosis and treatment of chronic noncommunicable diseases, the frequency of which increases with age, have been the particular importance. The researchers and practicing doctors have always paid special attention to hypertension in old and very old age due to its prevalence, changeable approaches to diagnosis and assessment of the impact on the prognosis, various ambiguous proposals for the management of the patients. Modern information about the international and domestic researches and recommendations on the issues of the pathophysiology of hypertension, features of its diagnosis and treatment in various clinical situations is presented in the review.
ISSN:1561-9125