[How to diagnose hypertension in the elderly?].
The management of hypertension in the elderly requires careful diagnosis, which is not always easy in this population because of the increased variability of blood pressure. The practitioner is faced with three questions in this diagnostic approach: how to evaluate the patient's real blood pressure level, how to assess the degree of cardiovascular impairment and concomitant disease and finally how to evaluate the subject's global cardiovascular risk. Self-monitoring of blood pressure, which allows measurement of blood pressure by the patient himself in his usual environment, provides a better assessment of the elderly patient's real blood pressure level.
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Service de Médecine Interne à Orientation Angéiologique, CHU Timone, boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13005 Marseille.
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