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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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Cardiovascular Risks Associated with Gender and Aging.

TL;DR: Current findings regarding the impacts of age and gender on heart disease are discussed and hormone replacement therapies are largely shown to not improve outcomes in older patients and may also increase the risks of cardiac events in older adults.
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Inflammaging and Oxidative Stress in Human Diseases: From Molecular Mechanisms to Novel Treatments

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Population-level COVID-19 mortality risk for non-elderly individuals overall and for non-elderly individuals without underlying diseases in pandemic epicenters.

TL;DR: People<65 years old have very small risks of COVID-19 death even in pandemic epicenters and deaths for people <65 years without underlying predisposing conditions are remarkably uncommon.
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Cardiac arrhythmias on 24-h ambulatory electrocardiography in older women and men : the cardiovascular health study

TL;DR: Arrhythmias are common in the elderly, and their association with cardiovascular disease differs by gender, and Ventricular arrhythmias were associated with a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors and with subclinical disease, as measured by increasedleft ventricular mass and impaired left ventricular function.
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Is age an independent predictor of early and late mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether advancing age is an independent predictor of increased mortality following acute myocardial infarction or simply a marker for more extensive cardiac disease, a higher prevalence of comorbid conditions, and/or differences in therapeutic approach.
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Incidence of cardiovascular disease in older Americans: the cardiovascular health study.

TL;DR: To estimate incidence rates of major cardiovascular disease (CVD) in older Americans, a large sample of adults over the age of 60 was surveyed to establish a baseline for this study.
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