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This review discusses subclinical cardiac conditions common in older people, highlighting the difficulty in defining genuine cardiac ageing due to the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease.
This review highlights the challenges in distinguishing genuine age-related cardiac changes from cardiovascular disease in the elderly.
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Distinguishing cardiac ageing from subclinical disease remains challenging in older adults; leaves open refined phenotyping for future research.
Ageing is an inevitable process which affects quality of life and reduces life expectancy. Age-related cardiac changes reduce compensatory reserves of the heart and accelerate the disease development. Such changes in cardiac structure and function, observed in the absence of cardiovascular disease (CVD), are considered age-related. However, taking into account the high prevalence of CVD in the elderly, it is problematic to define the genuine cardiac ageing. This review discusses a range of subclinical cardiac conditions which are common in older people.
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Акашева et al. (2013) conducted a review in Age-related cardiac changes. Ageing was evaluated. This review discusses subclinical cardiac conditions common in older people, highlighting the difficulty in defining genuine cardiac ageing due to the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease.
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