Corpus ID: 25223125

[Prevention of Cardiovascular Events: Are All Recommendations Applicable to Elderly Patients With Senile Asthenia?]

@article{Tkacheva2017PreventionOC,
  title={[Prevention of Cardiovascular Events: Are All Recommendations Applicable to Elderly Patients With Senile Asthenia?]},
  author={Olga N. Tkacheva and Yulia V Kotovskaya and N. K. Runikhina and V. S. Ostapenko},
  journal={Kardiologiia},
  year={2017},
  volume={57 5},
  pages={
          5-9
        }
}

• O. Tkacheva, Y. Kotovskaya, +1 author V. S. Ostapenko
• Published 2017
• Medicine
• Kardiologiia

Primary prevention of cardiovascular events is based on achievement of optimal control of risk factors - arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, glycemia - in accordance with current recommendations of scientific societies. But most rapidly growing segment of population - elderly and old individuals - have been underrepresented in randomized clinical trials underlying recommendations on primary and secondary prevention. That is why it is problematic to directly apply recommendations to patients… Expand