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Twenty-four hour blood pressure monitoring in group of patients of elderly and middle age with hypertension has been carried out. Features of daily average parameters have been studied. The hypertension in elderly patients shows an increase in variability of blood pressure and insufficient decrease in blood pressure at night that leads to development of cardiovascular complications.

The comparative analysis of accompanying diseases depending on the form of hypertension in elderly has been carried out. Prevalence of the isolated systolic or systolo-diastolic essential hypertension in elderly has been studied. The analysis of data has shown that systole-diastolic hypertension in patients is more often accompanied with diseases of heart, and in patients with isolated systolic hypertension is more often accompanied with cerebrovascular diseases. Both forms of a hypertension in elderly persons are adverse by the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebral complications.