BLOOD PRESSURE AND MORTALITY IN VERY OLD PEOPLE

Blood pressure and five year survival in the very old.

During 1977-8 we measured blood pressure in 561 old people (83% of those aged 85 or more living in Tampere) and analysed their five year survival according to their blood pressure group. The subjects were divided into six groups on the basis of their blood pressures (from less than 120 to greater than 200 mm Hg systolic, from less than 70 to greater than 110 diastolic). The greatest mortality w...

Blood pressure and mortality in healthy old people: the r shaped curve.

Low diastolic pressure and risk of dementia in very old people: a longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND/AIM Midlife high blood pressure is linked to late-life dementia. We sought to investigate the temporal relation of blood pressure to the risk of dementia and Alzhei-mer's disease (AD) among older adults. METHODS A dementia-free cohort (n = 422) aged > or =81 years was followed for 3 years to detect dementia and AD cases (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third ...

Blood Pressure and Old Age.

Twenty years ago, Thompson and Todd (1922) published an article entitled "Old age and blood pressure problems." They recorded the blood pressure in a hundred and two Chelsea pensioners over the age of seventy-five, noting that forty-six of them had systolic figures over 150 mm. and twenty-three over 170 mm. They also found that apparently similar men in normal health showed great differences in...

Blood Pressure in Old Population

1 Service of Internal Medicine, San Cecilio Universitary Hospital, University of Granada, 18012 Granada, Spain 2Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland 3Welfare and Health Promotion Division, National Institute for Health and Welfare, 00300 Helsinki, Finland 4Diabetes Prevention Unit, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, P.O. Box 30, 00271 Helsinki, Fin...