What do the recent American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation Clinical Practice Guidelines tell us about the evolving management of coronary heart disease in older adults?

Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-128

  Forman, Daniel ^a   Wenger, Nanette K ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Elderly patient; Guidelines

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PRASUGREL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 84883288555     PISSN: 16715411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1671-5411.2013.02.012     Document Type: Review

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