Comprehensive management of traditional and emerging cardiovascular risk factors, along with geriatric conditions like frailty, is essential to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the elderly.
A comprehensive review highlighting the importance of individualized management of cardiovascular risk factors, comorbidities, and frailty in the elderly population.
Age is associated with increased cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular disease, which constitutes the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in elderly population. In this text we thoroughly review current evidence regarding the impact on cardiovascular disease of the most important cardiovascular risk factors, especially prevalent and common in the elderly population. Diagnosis and treatment approaches are also addressed, also highlighting the importance of adequate primary and secondary prevention and management. Also, the relationship between cardiovascular disease and some comorbidities and geriatric conditions, such as frailty, particularly common in the elderly, is reviewed, together with some other issues, less often addressed but closely related to ageing, such as genetics, structural and electrical heart changes and oxidative stress. All such questions are of great importance in the comprehensive approach of risk factors and cardiovascular disease in the elderly.
Díez‐Villanueva et al. (Wed,) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease. Comprehensive management of traditional and emerging cardiovascular risk factors, along with geriatric conditions like frailty, is essential to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the elderly.
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