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Cardiac Senescence, Heart Failure, and Frailty: A Triangle in Elderly People.
The Keio journal of medicine - 25 Jun 2016
Shinmura Ken
Abstract excerpt
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a common problem in the elderly. In particular, the morbidity and mortality of patients with heart failure (HF) increase with age. The poor outcomes of elderly patients with HF can be explained partly by cardiac aging at the cellular and organ levels. Moreover, recent evidence has demonstrated that functional evaluation, which may reflect the status of individual aging, predicts...
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