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The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly: Morbidity, Mortality, and Costs

Ali Yazdanyar, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2009 - 
- Vol. 25, Iss: 4, pp 563-577
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An overview of the epidemiology of CVD in older adults is provided, including an assessment of the impact of CVC on mortality, morbidity, and health care costs.
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This article is published in Clinics in Geriatric Medicine.The article was published on 2009-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 449 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Successful aging & Population.

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Emergency department presentations for atrial fibrillation and flutter in Alberta: a large population-based study.

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TL;DR: In this article, age-related changes in cardiac autonomic modulation and heart rate variability (HRV) and their association with spontaneous and pharmacologically induced vulnerability to cardiac arrhythmias were assessed.
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The pharmacist's role in improving the treatment of erectile dysfunction and its underlying causes.

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Cardiac Diagnostic Feature and Demographic Identification (CDF-DI): An IoT Enabled Healthcare Framework Using Machine Learning.

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Successful Aging

TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors stated that much of the decline associated with old age has more to do with lifestyle than aging, and that social interaction is a powerful safeguard of emotional well-being.
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Burden of valvular heart diseases: a population-based study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the prevalence and effect of valve disease on overall survival in the general population and find that moderate or severe valve disease is common in this population and increase with age.
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