Busby WJ, Campbell AJ, Robertson MC: Is low blood pressure in elderly people just a consequence of heart disease and frailty? Age Ageing 23:69-74, 1994Busby WJ, Campbell AJ, Robertson MC. Is low blood pressure in elderly people just a consequence of heart disease and frailty? Age Ageing...
Low blood pressure (BP) has been found to be associated with cerebrovascular damage in the elderly. Studies of the relation of ambulatory BP to cognitive function in elderly persons aged 80 years or above is lacking, however.Ninety-seven 81-year-old men from the population study 'Men born in...
Patients with pneumonia or urinary tract infections, especially the elderly, are susceptible to dehydration. Burn victims can lose significant amounts of fluid from their burns. Bleeding decreases the number of red blood cells in the blood stream and leads to a decreased amount of fluid in the ...
Blood pressure is the force exerted by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. It constitutes one of the critically important signs of life or vital signs, which include heart rate,breathing, and temperature. Blood pressure is generated by the heart pumping blood into the arteries modifi...
It addresses the effects of low blood pressure in cognitively impaired elderly patients treated with antihypertensive drugs. This problem is well known in clinical practice. About one year before this publication, JNC82 were published. Researchers and clinicians paid attention to the new approach to ...
The symptoms of low blood pressureincludelightheadedness,dizziness, andfainting. These symptoms are most prominent when individuals go from the lying or sitting position to the standing position (orthostatic hypotension). Low blood pressure that causes an inadequate flow of blood to the body's organs...
The changes can vary between genders, such as between women and men, across various age categories like children to elderly, and various demographic conditions like ethnicity, race, physiological conditions, etc. What is a normal blood pressure range for men?
Many elderly are prescribed antihypertensive medication despite already having low blood pressureby Oxford University Press According to a new study in the journal Age and Ageing, a significant proportion of patients over 70 remain on antihypertensive medication despite having low blood pressure. This, ...
First, the sample consisted mainly of relatively healthy middle-aged and elderly people (mean age: 64 ± 13 years) who lived in rural areas of Japan and participated in the health checkup. Therefore, it cannot be considered representative of the general population. Second, the survey ...
Summary. To evaluate the effect of manidipine 10 mg on 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) in very elderly hypertensive patients, 54 patients aged 76–89 years (mean age 81.8 years) with systolic blood pressure (SBP) >160 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure (...