Hypertension in older persons

Chronic noncomunicable degenerative diseases dominate the pathology of modern man. Among them, the most common is hypertension which is now a major sociomedical problem, particularly in older persons. The main aim is to overlook the widespread hypertension in the elderly, and treatment of hypertension by territorial parts of Serbia, settlement type, gender and age, educational level and wealthy state. Making the goal of the analysis we have analyzed results carried out by survey conducted by the Institute of Public Health of Serbia. The results showed that hypertension is very widespread in the elderly population of Serbia - 53% of respondents stated that they were diagnosed with hypertension in the past year. It is commonly diagnosed disease of old people, followed by other circulatory diseases, diabetes and obesity. The prevalence of hypertension in the elderly is 76.5% and was significantly higher in central Serbia, in rural, male, less educated, older and poorer population. Approximately 76% of patients regularly take medication, while sometimes it do 22.8%. Only by diet is treated 3.5%, and the combined medication and with medication and diet by about 44.0. As a reason for not taking medication respondents listed lack of money to buy drugs and lack of medicines, and 34.0 is considered that the treatment is not necessary.