title: [Clinical and demographic characteristics of various types of arterial hypertension in elderly patients (based on results of Russian scientific-practical program ARGUS].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  It is the fragment of the trial aimed at the study of demographic indices and components of cardiovascular risk in patients over 55 with known and newly diagnosed arterial hypertension (AH) by referral to outpatient clinic depending on AH type.
  
  
  METHODS
  For a week, 140 therapists from 14 regions of the Russian Federation measured AP in all persons aged 55 and older visiting outpatient clinics. A total of 5582 persons were examined. 3847 of them were already diagnosed to have hypertension. Primary diagnosis of hypertension was made in 5.7 examinees out of 2442.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients with previous diagnosis of hypertension vs those with primary diagnosis had significantly greater index of body mass, had more often overweight, obesity and diabetes mellitus. Isolated systolic AH was encountered in 56% of all the primary cases. High and very high risk to develop cardiovascular complications was encountered in 59.9% of primary patients and 85.8% of those previously diagnosed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients aged 55 and older with newly diagnosed isolated systolic AH had the following most common factors of risk of cardiovascular complications: overweight, obesity, smoking, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus. In treated patients these risk factors are: overweight, obesity, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, smoking.
authors.forename: Zh D
authors.initials: ZhD
authors.lastname: Kobalova
authors.forename: Iu V
authors.initials: IuV
authors.lastname: Kotovskaia
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Aseeva
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Vereshchagina
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Galiavich
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Drozdetskiĭ
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Shlyk
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012306:Risk; D012307:Risk Factors