RENAL DISORDERS AND ARTERIAL-HYPERTENSION IN THE ELDERLY AND SENILE PATIENTS

The examination covered 125 elderly and senile subjects (106 females a nd 19 males) which made up 90.6% of those living in the boarding house . Their mean age was 81.3 years. Arterial hypertension was detected in 61.6% of the examinees. 18.5% of the examinees had hyperuricemia. Con centration function of the kidneys was affected in all the examinees. Half of them exhibited a moderate rise in the level of blood creatinin e. The authors discuss the relationship between high prevalence of art erial hypertension, its tendency to crises and involutional processes in the kidneys in the onset and development of renoprival condition.