Overview
- Reports on basic science and clinical findings in the relationship between frailty and cardiovascular disease
- Covers epidemiological facts on cardiovascular diseases and frailty in older people trying, for the first time, to explain this association
- Benefits researchers, practitioners, specialists (particularly in geriatrics and cardiology)
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1216)
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This book aims to clarify the potential association between frailty and cardiovascular disease in older people. Covering the biological as well as the clinical point of view, it allows researchers and clinicians to discover the significance of this topic.
The contributions cover the most important aspects in the potential relationship between frailty and cardiovascular disease. In particular, authoritative authors in this field have clarified the definition and the epidemiology of frailty and cardiovascular disease in older people. A large part of the volume is dedicated to the biological mechanisms of frailty and cardiovascular disease, trying to find those in common between these two conditions.
Since this book is dedicated to both researchers and clinicians, we have proposed some chapters to the importance of comprehensive geriatric assessment in the evaluation and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and frailty. In this regard, the importance of geriatric evaluation in cardiac surgery for older people is well covered. Finally, the importance of cardiac rehabilitation and physical exercise is summarized, being, actually, the most important treatments for both frailty and cardiovascular disease.Written by many well-known and widely published experts in their respective fields, this book will appeal to a wide readership such as researchers in the field and clinicians, especially suited in geriatric medicine and cardiology who, every day, face frail older patients.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Frailty and Cardiovascular Diseases
Book Subtitle: Research into an Elderly Population
Editors: Nicola Veronese
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33330-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33329-4Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33332-4Published: 02 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33330-0Published: 01 January 2020
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 154
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Biogerontology, Geriatric Care, Cardiology, Epidemiology