8 ASSESSMENT OF SELECTED CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS IN ELDERLY POPULATION OF VADODARA.
Journal Title: Indian journal of applied basic medical sciences - Year 2017, Vol 19, Issue 29
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: India is an aging nation and we are having presently around 8.0-8.5% aged population who are inadequately studied for their gerontology norms and exposed to limited health care due to reasons. Vadodara is a city in central Gujarat with large population of elderly persons. Their organizations are also active. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We studied 60 elderly participants in age arrange of 60 80+; 30 males and 30 females of middle class, staying for more than 5years in urban milleu in community, in different pockets of Vadodara city. Careful history, clinical examination of relevance, demographic parameters , resting heart rate, resting blood pressure, pulse oxymetry, and single time ECG tracings in resting state of all twelve classic leads were determined. OBSERVATIONS AND RESULTS: Findings are presented in graphs and tables. The demographic parameters are within /around range of other urban individuals in surrounding regions, ECG showed P wave features, and ventricular features [quite less common in our study] as shown in tables, HR and SBP/DBP/PP/MAP were in accordance to expectation and correlate well with age characteristics. CONCLUSION: We conclude that the demographic parameters of elderly of Vadodara we studied, are within range of normal uncomplicated aging individual and for ECG findings, the features correlate well with observations of investigators in past and present. at home or abroad.
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Dr. U. I Bhatt, DR. J. M. HARSODA
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