[Intestinal microbiota and chronic heart failure: association and targets of influence of therapy.].

The increasing prevalence of chronic heart failure (CHF) among older people is a global problem. Despite the success of treatment, the mortality rate of these patients remains high, resulting in the need to search for new mechanisms of the development and progression of cardiovascular system pathologies, as well as to develop innovative branches of therapy. Considerable recent interest has been directed towards studying changes in the composition of the intestinal microbiota in people with age, its role in development, as well as potential directions for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and their complications.