Treatment of hypertension in older patients

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O. M. Kovalyova

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the strategy of management of arterial hypertension in older patients based on the Guidelines of the International Society of Hypertension, the European Society of Cardiology, the European and the American Society of Hypertension, the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians. According to the results of epidemiological and clinical investigations is shown the influence of high blood pressure on cardiovascular outcomes and mortality in the population of older persons. Due to the analyses of randomised controlled trials is pointed out the convicing data the need for differtntiated control of blood pressure according to the level of arterial hypertension and factors of cardiovascular risk. The methodology of initial antihypertensive therapy in persons of different age groups is taken in comparative aspects. The main discussed questions related to the blood pressure targets in the dynamics of antihypertensive treatment in patients 65–79 years and age ≥ 80 years are emphasized. The requirements for individual medical tactics of older hypertensive patients taken into account anamnesis, fit and mental state, clinical features, comorbidity, complications and hypertension-mediated organ damages are recommended.

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arterial hypertension, old age, antihypertensive treatment, blood pressure targets

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