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| Care of the elderly heart | | Author(s) | Alison Bloomer |
| Journal title | Geriatric Medicine, vol 37, no 9, supplement GM2, September 2007 |
| Pages | (whole issue) |
| Keywords | Cardiovascular diseases ; Diabetes ; Hypertension. |
| Annotation | A commentary by Dr Martin Fotherby, a senior lecturer in the Department of Ageing and Stroke Medicine, University of Leicester, introduces this Supplement which focuses on heart disease. Dr Fotherby believes that industrialised countries where the lifetime risk of being hypertensive is greater than 90 per cent, and hypertension underpins much vascular disease, must lay greater emphasis on lifestyle and environmental factors to combat this growing trend. A more systematic approach to screening for hypertension as well as other vascular risk factors such as diabetes also needs to be adopted. Four articles focus on: syncope and epilepsy; atrial fibrillation; heart failure; and Type 2 diabetes. There is also a conference report on global cardiovascular risk in the elderly population held at the Royal College of Surgeons in London on July 3rd 2007. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070925212 A |
| Classmark | CQ: CPD: CQQ |
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