Age-Associated Cardiovascular Changes in Health and Disease

Ed G. Lakatta, MD
August 1, 2002 (Reviewed: August 20, 2004)

Professor Lakatta, as Guest Editor, has recently written an Introduction and contributed an important article to a special edition of Heart Failure Reviews. His Introduction, entitled "Chronic Heart Failure in Older Persons" is on-line at: http://www.healthandage.org/PHome/gm=20!gid2=1822.

His article "Age-Associated Cardiovascular Changes in Health: Impact on Cardiovascular Disease in Older Persons" highlights specific structural and physiological changes that occur with age in animal and human cardiovascular systems that are relevant for the cardiovascular diseases seen in older persons. The article is reproduced in full at: http://www.healthandage.org/html/art_pdfs/heart.pdf

The full Table of Contents of the special Heart Failure Review edition is as follows:

Introduction
Edward G. Lakatta, M.D.

The Burden of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure in Older Persons: Magnitude and Implications for Policy and Research
Frederick A. Masoudi, M.D., Edward P. Havranek, M.D. ,Harlan Krumholtz

Diastolic Heart Failure in the Elderly
Dalane Kitzman, M.D.

Cardiovascular Aging Without a Clinical Diagnosis
Edward G. Lakatta, M.D.

Concepts of Vascular-Ventricular Coupling in Advanced Age in Health and Their Implications for Heart Failure Therapies
David A. Kass

Acute and Chronic Adaptation to Hemodynamic Overload and Ischemia in the Aged Heart
Shogen Isoyama, M.D. and Yuko Komatsubara-Nitta, M.D.

Studies of Prevention, Treatment and Mechanism of Heart Failure in the Aging Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat
Oscar H. L. Bing, M.D., Chester H. Conrad, Marvin O. Boluyt, Kathleen G. Robinson, Wesley W. Brooks

Management of Heart Failure in the Elderly
Michael W. Rich, M.D.

Can Exercise Conditioning Be Effective in the Older Heart Failure Patient?
Jerome Fleg, M.D.

The abstracts of these articles can be accessed, online, free at: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1382-4147. In addition, full texts in PDF format can be purchased.

Source

• Age-associated Cardiovascular Changes in Health: Impact on Cardiovascular Disease in Older Persons. EG. Lakatta, Heart Failure Reviews , 2002, vol. 7, pp. 29--49

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