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High Blood Press Cardiovasc Prev ; 22(1): 73-8, 2015 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25339227

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: The epidemiology of cardiovascular risk (CV) in the elderly is far from being defined, and the reasons why some subjects retain a healthy body while growing old while others are affected by different diseases or die prematurely are still unknown. AIMS: To compare the CV risk pattern in two elderly cohorts living in North-East Italy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The Risk Of Vascular complications: Impact of Genetics in Old people (ROVIGO) study is a population-based study including 580 unrelated elderly subjects representative of general population living in Rovigo in the Veneto region. They were compared to a cohort of 580 age-gender-matched unrelated subjects from the CArdiovascular STudy in the Elderly (CASTEL) living in the same region in Castelfranco Veneto and Chioggia. RESULTS: Blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol, and prevalence of coronary heart disease, heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease were lower in the ROVIGO than in the CASTEL cohort, while high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and the prevalence of diabetes were higher in the former than in the latter. In the ROVIGO cohort, diabetes, left ventricular hypertrophy, coronary and cerebrovascular diseases were more represented in men. In the CASTEL cohort, systolic BP was higher in women. In both cohorts, the lipid pattern was less favourable and HR higher in women, chronic pulmonary disease more represented in men. CONCLUSIONS: People living in Rovigo were at lower CV risk than those in Castelfranco Veneto and Chioggia, mainly due to lower BP values, better lipid pattern and lower prevalence of CV and pulmonary disease.


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Aging/genetics , Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology , Research Design , Age Factors , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Cardiovascular Diseases/diagnosis , Cardiovascular Diseases/genetics , Dyslipidemias/epidemiology , Female , Genetic Predisposition to Disease , Health Status , Health Surveys , Humans , Hypertension/epidemiology , Italy/epidemiology , Lung Diseases/epidemiology , Male , Phenotype , Prevalence , Protective Factors , Risk Assessment , Risk Factors , Sex Factors
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Int J Hypertens ; 2012: 590683, 2012.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21949902

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Arterial hypertension (HT) is age dependent and, with the prolongation of life expectancy, affects more and more elderly people. In the elderly, HT is a risk factor for organ damage and cardiovascular (CV) events. Both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic reduction of blood pressure (BP) is associated with a corresponding decrease in systolic-diastolic or isolated systolic HT. Clinical trials have shown that BP lowering is associated with a decrease in stroke and other CV events. Therefore, BP reduction per se appears more important than a particular class of antihypertensive drugs. The benefit of antihypertensive treatment has been confirmed up to the age of 80 years, remaining unclear in the octogenarians. The benefit in lowering diastolic BP between 80 and 90 mmHg is well established, while that of lowering systolic BP below 140 mmHg requires further confirmations.

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Blood Press ; 19(2): 67-74, 2010 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20001393

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AIMS: To ascertain whether chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) mortality in the elderly subjects from general population. METHODS: 3282 subjects of the Northern Italy aged > or =65 years were followed up for 12 years in the frame of the CArdiovascular STtudy in the ELderly. Multivariate stepwise proportional hazard Cox regression was therefore used to identify the prognostic role of COPD on CV mortality in hypertensive (HT) and normotensive (NT) subjects. The hazard ratio (HR) of COPD with 95% confidence interval (CI) for mortality was adjusted for confounders in both genders. RESULTS: COPD resulted to be an independent predictor of CV mortality (HR 1.34, CI 1.13-1.61) in HT but not in NT subjects. This was evident both in men (HR 1.44, 1.25-1.95) and women (HR 1.32, CI 1.14-1.53); pulse pressure (PP) was directly related and anti-hypertensive therapy inversely related to risk of CV mortality, an association that was greater in subjects with than without COPD. CONCLUSION: COPD should be included in the computation of global risk in HT subjects. PP is the main BP component in increasing CV risk in subjects with COPD. Controlled trials should be performed to evaluate the pressor targets to be reached in HT subjects with COPD, with the aim of decreasing their CV risk.


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Cardiovascular Diseases/mortality , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/mortality , Aged , Antihypertensive Agents/therapeutic use , Cardiovascular Diseases/drug therapy , Female , Humans , Hypertension/drug therapy , Hypertension/mortality , Hypertension/physiopathology , Male , Prognosis , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/drug therapy , Risk Factors
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