VASCULAR AGE. ITS INFLUENCE ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND ON ITS FORECAST, POSSIBILITIES OF CORRECTION

Vascular age (synonyms — cardiac age, age of cardiovascular risk, biological age). Chronological age of a patient with the same level of cardiovascular risk as the subject, but in the absence of modifiable risk factors.Vascular age:— may be more than the passport in the presence of risk factors,— allows you to explain to the patient that he has a high risk of CVD,— increases the motivation and adherence of patients to therapy,— allows the physician to evaluate the effectiveness of therapy in reducing the risk of CVD in a given patient. The growing interest in the problems of vascular aging and the search for new available parameters reflecting the effect of this process on cardiovascular risk, led to the emergence of the indicator «Vascular age», which is a way of expressing the risk of cardiovascular complications in the form of age.