[Future medicine for hypertension in the elderly].
The number of the aged patients with hypertension is now explosively increasing. In near future, progress of new and tailor-made prescribed antihypertensive drugs and curable-gene therapy for hypertension will improve new era of hypertension in the elderly. And finally, resolusion of the aging mechanism and anti-aging medicine may open our future.
Higaki
Jitsuo
J
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Ehime University School of Medicine.
D000368:Aged; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D015195:Drug Design; D005544:Forecasting; D015316:Genetic Therapy / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome; D009765:Obesity; D010597:Pharmacogenetics / Q000639:trends; D011788:Quality of Life
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents