Treating hypertension in elderly people

Restless leg syndrome in elderly people with hypertension in Qazvin in 2018

Background Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases in the elderly people. Its high prevalence increases the risk of heart disease, heart attacks and strokes , kidney failure and mortality. Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) is one of the possible risk factors for hypertension, which is a chronic sensory-motor disorder associated with a feeling of itching or creepy crawly in the legs, c...

Musical neurofeedback for treating depression in elderly people

We introduce a new neurofeedback approach, which allows users to manipulate expressive parameters in music performances using their emotional state, and we present the results of a pilot clinical experiment applying the approach to alleviate depression in elderly people. Ten adults (9 female and 1 male, mean = 84, SD = 5.8) with normal hearing participated in the neurofeedback study consisting ...

Where are the guidelines for treating hypertension in elderly patients?

Immediate and late benefits of treating very elderly people with hypertension: results from active treatment extension to Hypertension in the Very Elderly randomised controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To assess if very elderly people with hypertension obtain early benefit from antihypertensive treatment. DESIGN One year open label active treatment extension of randomised controlled trial (Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET)). SETTING Hospital and general practice based centres mainly in eastern and western Europe, China, and Tunisia. PARTICIPANTS People on double b...

Hypertension and its related factors in Taiwanese elderly people.

BACKGROUND Our study used data collected in Chung-Hsing Village in May 1998 to evaluate the prevalence of hypertension and its correlates in Taiwanese elderly people. METHODS All of individuals aged 65 and over were recruited as study subjects. A total of 1,093 persons, out of 1,774 registered residents, were contacted by face-to-face interview The response rate was 61.6 percent. However, onl...