[Capillary blood circulation in middle-aged and elderly arterial hypertension patients].
Eighty patients with hypertensive disease and sixty patients with atherosclerotic (systolic) hypertension of the elderly (60--70 years old) and old (78--89 years old) age groups were examined. Skin capillary circulation and the indices of central hemodynamics were studied. It was found that changes in capillary circulation in elderly and old patients with hypertensive disease or systolic hypertension had no specific features and were of the same character as those in healthy individuals of the same age. In decrease of arterial pressure as the result of diminished cardiac output deterioration of capillary circulation was quite frequently encountered. A hypotensive effect, which is attended with reduction of total peripheral resistance, leads as a rule to improvement of capillary circulation.
D000368:Aged; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D002196:Capillaries / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008833:Microcirculation / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009262:Nails / Q000098:blood supply*
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents
Kapilliarnoe krovoobrashchenie u bol'nykh arterial'noĭ gipertonieĭ pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozratsa.