[Current problems in mutual relations of cerebral vascular and cardiovascular diseases in elderly and senile age].

The authors have been taking up the problems of the cardiovascular pathology caused by atherosclerosis for many years, and are supporters of universality of the specified pathology. The article demonstrates the results of the researches executed by authors, and other leaders of this direction in a medical science. Questions of mutual relations of various diseases of cardiovascular system on clinical, pathogenetic, pathomorphological, biochemical levels are considered. Aging of a human body, and also brain and heart vessels as leading "targets" of the atherosclerosis are supposed to be a pathogenetic basis of formation and development of universal atherosclerotic defeat processes. Therefore the gerontology plays a prior role in studying the strategic aspects of this field of a medical science, and tactical questions of diagnostics and treatment of cardiovascular diseases should be a prerogative of clinical disciplines, namely cardiology, neurology, cardiovascular surgery, etc.