Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly: Prevention and Diagnosis
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiovascular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 118
Special Issue Editors
Interests: palliative care; iatrogeny; cardiology; communication in geriatrics
Interests: older adults quality of life; elderly patients; geriatrics
Interests: cardiology; internal medicine; heart failure; atherosclerosis; arterial hypertension
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Dear Colleagues,
Cardiovascular diseases remain the most important cause of death in the elderly population. There is an increased prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in older people due to the addition of new risk factors, such as physiological changes in the cardiovascular system with aging, frailty and sarcopenic obesity; the impact of the unfavorable evolution of the concomitant chronic diseases; polypharmacy; and iatrogeny.
The elimination of cardiovascular risk factors has greater effects in the elderly than in other age groups.
The symptoms and clinical examination could be atypical compared to the classic ones, or they could be replaced by symptoms borrowed from other concomitant diseases (ulcer, pancreatitis, pleuritis, equivalents of dyspnea) or even be absent. This is why the diagnosis of the main cardiovascular problems in the elderly can easily be overlooked or overused.
Investigations that would provide a good starting point in the diagnosis of these conditions are ECG and Holter ECG monitoring, which allow us to record potential episodes of silent ischemia, as well as heart rate variability and echocardiography.
This Special Issue will provide new information on the prevention and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases in old people based on a combination of original research and review papers.
Topics of interest include the following:
- New cardiovascular risk factors in elderly patients, such as frailty, the risk of falling, sarcopenic obesity, heart rate variability, and insulin resistance;
- Diagnostic approaches in elderly patients with heart failure and type 2 diabetes;
- Cardiovascular pathology and concomitant diseases in elderly patients and the importance of preserving good resilience and intrinsic capacity.
The complex management of elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases and multiple concomitant problems, as well as the importance of medication reconciliation.
Prof. Dr. Ioana Dana Alexa
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Ioan Prada
Prof. Dr. Ciprian Rezus
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiovascular risk factors
- elderly patients
- frailty, sarcopenia
- heart rate variability
- insulin resistance
- physical resilience
- intrinsic capacity
- diastolic dysfunction
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