Age- and sex-related characteristics of the heart and brain in hypertension patients

Petrenko, A.G.

Vrachebnoe Delo 4: 45-47

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0049-6804
PMID: 2526979
Document Number: 341966
Autopsy findings indicate that elderly patients suffering of hypertensive disease showed a smaller increase of the total mass of the myocardium as compared with the young. The increase of the myocardium mass was larger in males than in females. Increase of the total brain mass in patients with the above pathology was approximately similar in the two age groups and both sexes.

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