Blood pressure increases with aging, yet hypertension is powerful risk factor for cardiovascular disease also at an advanced age and not a benign condition of normal aging. At the same time, intervention studies have shown that treatment can reduce this excess risk also at an advanced age. This review summarizes the most recent advances on epidemiology of hypertension in the elderly. Emphasis will be given to new acquisitions in the field of epidemiology of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of older persons with high blood pressure.
Epidemiologic aspects of hypertension in old age / Di Bari M.; Lambertucci L.; Pozzi C.; Virgillio A.; Ungar A.; Masotti G.; Marchionni N.. - In: GIORNALE DI GERONTOLOGIA. - ISSN 0017-0305. - STAMPA. - 52:(2004), pp. 331-337.
Epidemiologic aspects of hypertension in old age
Di Bari M.;Lambertucci L.;Pozzi C.;Ungar A.;Masotti G.;Marchionni N.
2004
Abstract
Blood pressure increases with aging, yet hypertension is powerful risk factor for cardiovascular disease also at an advanced age and not a benign condition of normal aging. At the same time, intervention studies have shown that treatment can reduce this excess risk also at an advanced age. This review summarizes the most recent advances on epidemiology of hypertension in the elderly. Emphasis will be given to new acquisitions in the field of epidemiology of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of older persons with high blood pressure.
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