The aging heart: State-of-the-art prevention and management of cardiac disease

Geriatrics

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 45-49

  McLaughlin, M A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REVIEW; SYSTOLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034975153     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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