Serdechno-sosudistye zabolevaniya zanimayut lidiruyushchie pozitsii v zabolevaemosti vzroslogo naseleniya, osobenno sredi lits pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozrasta, chto na fone stareyushchego naseleniya planety, delaet problemu diagnostiki i lecheniya bolezney serdechno-sosudistoy sistemy osobenno aktual"noy. V svyazi s chem v poslednie gody vse bol"she udelyaetsya vnimanie geriatricheskoy farmakologii i geriatricheskoy kardiologii. V rukovodstve izlozheny osobennosti farmakodinamiki i farmakokinetiki lekarstvennykh sredstv u bol"nykh pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozrasta, rassmatrivayutsya voprosy vzaimodeystviya lekarstv, naibolee rasprostranennye pobochnye effekty i osnovnye printsipy geriatricheskoy farmakoterapii. Osoboe vnimanie udelyaetsya diagnostike i lecheniyu osnovnykh serdechno-sosudistykh zabolevaniy v geriatricheskoy praktike: arterial"naya gipertoniya, ishemicheskaya bolezn" serdtsa, khronicheskaya serdechnaya nedostatochnost". Rukovodstvo rekomendovano praktikuyushchim vracham, internam i ordinatoram razlichnykh spetsial"nostey, studentam meditsinskikh vuzov, mozhet byt" ispol"zovano dlya obrazovatel"nykh tseley v sisteme nepreryvnogo professional"nogo obrazovaniya spetsialistov zdravookhraneniya.