The study was carried out on 70 patients with type 2 diabetes (28 male, 42 female from 37-77 years old) at the Institute of Geriatry – Bach Mai Hospital. In comparing the blood flow velocity of central artery of retina in the diabetes group and the control group, during various stages of damages of fundus oeuli, fllowing X-ray radiographic image and the variation of blood flow velocity in different times of the disease. Results showed the obions decrease of velocity in systolic and diastolic phases at the retimal central artery in comparing with the control. X-ray image showed the decrease progressively of the blood flow velocity in the course of fundus oculi. This is an indicator for assessing indirectly the evolution of pathological processus of retina. The longer diabetes course, the lesser blood flow velocity in retinal central artery
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 ; Retinal Artery ; Ultrasonics

Investigating the social-medical care demands of 1534 olders at An Hai district, Hai Phong city. Method: Using ..... and deal with results acording to satistical program. Result: common traits: Three person level families are majority, sons have great responsibility to their families and old people’s living. The percentage of old people who continue working is high because that is their main income, few of them have saving money. The old woman have positions in comparison with old men, such as: higher quantity, lower educational standard, high rate of widow. Demands of the old’s social-medical care: Demands of the medical care and rate of people who have hamrful habits (acolho, smoke cigarate) are high. >90% old people can control their living activities.
Delivery of Health Care ; Aged ; Epidemiology

Aging process always accompanied with the much diseases and it is difficult to distinguish the normal aging and real diseases. Otherwise, pathological features in elderly interfered the diagnosis and treatment, which required the application of many measures. That ‘s why the risks of complications were increasingly. The objectives of the treatment were to prevent and reduce the diseases.
Aging ; disease

Color Doppler ultrasound imaging is an explorating method no harmful, no hemorrhagic with possibility of early diagnosis and accurate evaluation of injuries on vascular system in the pathology of lower extremity arterial occlusive disease.
Echocardiography, Doppler, Color ; Arteries ; diagnosis

To find prevalence of orthostatic hypotension (OH) in elder persons living in community, blood pressure was measured in the supine position and after 1-2 minutes of orthostatist in 1286 elderly persons (499 men and 787 women aged 70.447.54 years). The results showed that the prevalence of OH in elderly persons living in community was 18.5%. There are not any significant difference in OH between men and women. Prevalence of OH in “very old” group (75 years old or more) was higher than in 60 - 74 years old group (30.4% vs. 13.8%). The hypertensive persons had the prevalence of OH higher than that of the normotensive persons.
Hypotension, Orthostatic ; Hypotension ; Prevalence

1305 older persons living in communities were included in an epidemiological survey to investigate the risk factor for atherosclerosis. The results showed that prevalence of risk factors in the elderly was high: dyslipidemia (47.5%), hypertension (45.6%), smoking (26.9%), obesity (18.3%) and diabetes/IFG (12.1%). The prevalence of hypertension in rural area was higher than in urban area. Prevalence of dyslipidemia, diabetes/IFG and obesity in urban were higher than in rural area. There are not difference in prevalence of hypertension, diabetes/IFG and obesity between men and women.
Atherosclerosis ; Risk Factors ; Epidemiologic Studies ; aged

Hypertension of the elderly was studied. 1030 old subjects age 60 years old living in 3 communes (Phuong Mai – Ha Noi city, Phu Xuan - Hue city and Hoa Long – Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province). Average age: 70,44  7,54 years old. Blood pressure was measured and classified by JNC-VI standard. Results found a prevalence of general hypertension of 45,6%, simple high systolic pressure 24,8%. There is no difference in 3 localities and between male/female subjects, the prevalence increases in dependence with the age
Hypertension ; Aged ; Blood Pressure ; epidemiology

84 patients with chronic venous insufficiency (30 males and 54 females, between 29-88 years old) were examined by color-Doppler. Reflux Venous Index was determined by pressing calf of legs when standing. Results: time, peak velocity of flow when releasing were higher than these when pressing. The mean Reflux Venous Index was 8.25. The more advantaged clinical stage, the higher Reflux Venous Index. This disease was more common at age >60 years old
Venous Insufficiency ; Echocardiography, Doppler, Color ; Venous Pressure

Hypertension often causes cardiovascular complications, stroke, and has high rate of death, so physical examinations of hypertension could be interested in injury of target organ, coronary risk factors, specified causes, tests, and other diagnostic means. In the treatment, there are goals, lifestyle changes, using drugs, monitoring, treatment of hypertension bouts, and prevention
Hypertension ; Cardiovascular Diseases ; Cerebrovascular Accident

To effectively and safely treat diseases for the older, it needs to thorough understand the changes of pharmacokinetics such as absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drug; of pharmacodynamics and side-effects of drugs; of drug interactions, including interactions between drug and drug, or between drug and disease; to obey the principles of prescription for older by basic access, adjustment of dose... Incompliance of drug use is a big problem that often be forgotten in the treatment, and accounted for 50% of older patients. Impaired cognitive performance in older is one cause of incompliance
aged ; Therapeutics ; Pharmacokinetics