Pulmonary hypertension is found mostly in young age and elderly women. It seems to have more affects on the elderly women and men having worse prognosis. Studies and research on elderly people have shown result that the pulmonary hypertension is not a new health condition in seniors.

A recent survey on pulmonary hypertension in elderly people provided the statistics that people affected with this disease were greater than seventy years of age which makes nine percent of patients among total patients. As compared to a study in past, which provided the statistics that nine percent of patients among all patients were greater than sixty years old, a difference of ten years was found when compared. This is a good sign of improvement and at least the recent developments in medicines have brought this change.

Elderly patients of pulmonary hypertension are admitted in hospitals to improve their condition, but the patients are sometimes treated incorrectly with experimental therapies that in fact deteriorate their condition rather than to improve it. The other diseases related to heart or lungs are found more in the elderly rather than pulmonary hypertension. In elderly patients, a common therapy used nowadays commonly known as vasodilator therapies (an agent used to widen blood vessels for free flow of blood and reduces blood pressure) for pulmonary hypertension. This treatment can actually worsen hypoxemia and gas exchange in the elderly, especially those suffering from lung diseases. This treatment can also create pulmonary edema in the elderly with heart failure.

In the treatment of the condition, experts have emphasized to assess and figure out the cause comprising of cardiac catheterization. While treating the elderly, extreme care should be taken of the drugs prescribed to the patients and should recommend drugs approved for pulmonary hypertension treatment. Treatment should be stopped immediately if the condition of patient is worsening rather than to assume that the effect of disease is getting reduced.

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