Investigates whether low blood pressure in elderly people is a consequence of heart disease and ageing. Hypotension as a predictor of increased mortality in elderly people; Nature of the Mosgiel Stage II study; Use of the logistic regression models; Subdivision of hypotension into two groups; ...
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...
19,20 A previous study23 of elderly nursing home residents (a population often affected by dementia) demonstrated no prognostic effect of blood pressure, with a poor correlation between office and ABPM values. Those data raised doubts regarding the clinical meaning of office blood pressure in ...
The difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure is that systolic refers to the highest pressure when the heart contracts and pumps blood, while diastolic represents the lowest pressure when the heart relaxes between beats. When you measure your blood pressure, you’ll see two numbers, ...
The systolic blood pressure (the top number) represents the pressure in the arteries as the muscle of the heart contracts and pumps blood into them. The diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) represents the pressure in the arteries as the muscle of the heart relaxes following its contracti...
The systolic blood pressure (the top number) represents the pressure in the arteries as the muscle of the heart contracts and pumps blood into them. The diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) represents the pressure in the arteries as the muscle of the heart relaxes following its contracti...
Things to Know About Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension) Blood pressure chart Low blood pressure in itself may be less important than the symptoms associated with it. An individual's blood pressure is expressed as systolic/diastolic blood pressure, for example, 120/80. See the Blood Pressure Chart...
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 (...
1.(Pathology)patholan abnormally low body temperature, as induced in the elderly by exposure to cold weather 2.(Medicine)medthe intentional reduction of normal body temperature, as by ice packs, to reduce the patient's metabolic rate: performed esp in heart and brain surgery ...
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