Key result
Review highlights major advances in diagnosing and treating older adults with CVD.
Why the study?
Older adults comprise an increasingly large proportion of the CVD population alongside substantial research expansion since the 1986 Bethesda Conference, establishing geriatric cardiology as a field.
This review highlights the evolution of geriatric cardiology over the past 4 decades and provides an update on the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease in older adults.
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May guide management of older adults with CVD; leaves open need for prospective validation of advances.
The 1986 Bethesda Conference on Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) in the Elderly, co-chaired by Drs Nanette Wenger, Frank Marcus, and Robert O'Rourke delineated the anticipated social, political, ethical, economic, and technological impact of an aging population on the incidence, prevalence, and management of CVD in the United States and worldwide. In the ensuing 4 decades, older patients have come to comprise an increasingly large proportion of the CVD population, and there has been an explosion of research in all aspects of CVD affecting older adults. Correspondingly, geriatric cardiology is now an established field within cardiovascular medicine. In this communication, we provide a focused update on intersections between CVD and geriatrics from basic science to clinical practice, a review of major advances in diagnosis and treatment of older adults with CVD, and a preview of future research directions in the still-evolving field of geriatric cardiology.
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Forouzandeh et al. (2024) conducted a review in Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults. This review provides a focused update on the intersections between cardiovascular disease and geriatrics, detailing major advances in the diagnosis and treatment of older adults with CVD.
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