Key result
Pre-existing CVD in the elderly is linked to higher COVID-19 mortality driven by immune senescence.
Why the study?
Frail individuals aged >65 years with cardiovascular disease face increased susceptibility to COVID-19 and higher mortality, requiring strategies to adapt healthcare management.
Highlights the critical need for tailored management strategies to protect frail, elderly patients with cardiovascular disease who are at high risk of mortality from COVID-19.
Hypothesis-generating for frail elderly care adaptations in pandemics; leaves open need for higher-level evidence.
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic state, in relation to the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus disease- 2, responsible for the coronavirus disease- 2019 (COVID-19). The pandemical blast of COVID-19 uncovered well known weakness of financial chain and put our economic organizations facing off dramatic consequences if new strategies will not be developed to adapt health-care on detailed sub-groups of patients. Frail individual aged >65 years affected by cardiovascular disease are an aged population that showed a particular attitude to contract infection and a higher mortality rate compared to general population. In this brief article, we will focus on the management of issues related to cardiovascular patients facing coronavirus infection, in particular in the most fragile groups of the population such as the elderly, increasingly numerous and affected by multimorbidity. Protecting aged populations will be a central question, probably primary in everyone’s interest.
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Costa et al. (2020) conducted a review in COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease. COVID-19 was evaluated. Elderly patients with pre-existing cardiovascular disease face a higher risk of severe complications and mortality from COVID-19 due to immune senescence and potential myocardial injury.
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