Abstract
The article provides the description of the clinical importance of comorbidity, its epidemiology, the attention is focused on the highest prevalence and prognostic significance of cardiovascular and gastrointestinal pathogenetic relations complicating the course of the cardiovascular pathology by development of erosive-ulcerative lesions of stomach and duodenum, the first manifestation of which are often life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding. Symptomatic gastroduodenal ulcer lesions (SGUL) are described in detail including their modern definition, classification, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and diagnosis with a detailed analysis of features of pathogenesis and course of patients with cardiovascular diseases. SGUL induced by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are analyzed including those induced by low-dose acetylsalicylic acid (NDA), risk factors for their occurrence and prevention in groups at high and moderate gastrointestinal risk are considered. The need for further scientific research of topical issues of «comorbidity» to improve diagnosis and treatment of comorbid pathology in public health practice are stressed.
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