title: [Gerontological aspects of cardiology].
abstract: The growing interest to problems of geriatric cardiology the author associates with considerable demographic shifts (an increased proportion of th elderly people within the structure of the population); a clearer idea as to the part played by age-specific changes in an ageing organism in the development of the circulatory pathology; and with the need to take account of clinical peculiarities common to diseases involving the cardiovascular system in persons of advanced and senile age, of features specific for their therapy and prevention. The research trends along which geriatric cardiology develops are analyzed; basic data on age-specific changes and their relation with developing pathology of the cardiovascular system, obtained in animal experiments and observations of practically healthy subjects of advanced and senile age are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000209:etiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D002319:Cardiovascular System / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Gerontologicheskie aspekty v kardiologii