Geriatric Condition Burden in Cardiovascular Clinics

older patients and seek geriatrics consultation for assistance in navigating complex issues.Several key principles and care models for providing optimal geriatric cardiology care have been recently proposed 4 including recognizing and considering the potential impact of multi-complexity; evaluating and integrating cognition, physical function, and social and environmental factors into decision-making; and eliciting patient priorities and health goals to closely align them with the care plan.Furthermore, along with the changes in clinical practice, we emphasize that more studies are needed to determine effective ways of integrating geriatrics principles into care delivered by CVD providers with the goal of promoting a patient-centered positive outcomes.The current study has several limitations.First, the survey did not delineate several specialties in internal medicine, such as endocrinology, nephrology, and geriatrics.It also did not collect information on relevant age-related conditions, such as functional decline or frailty, or on age-associated CVDs, such as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.Additionally, this study is based on a survey data with inherent limitations of selection bias or recall bias.Despite the limitations, our study highlights the presence of relatively high burdens of geriatric conditions among patients seen by CVD specialists using nationally representative data, and calls for future work to transform the clinical practice for highquality care for older adults.