Background Frailty is increasingly reported among older adults with cardiovascular diseases
and it has been demonstrated to increase negative health outcomes and mortality. To date …

Several biomarkers have been proposed to identify frailty, a multisystemic age-related
syndrome. However, the complex pathophysiology and the absence of a consensus on a …

Purpose: This study updates cardiac rehabilitation (CR) utilization data in a cohort of
Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for CR-eligible events in 2017, including stratification by …

Hypertension is a frequent finding in elderly patients. Hypertension in older age can be both
associated with frailty and represent a risk factor for frailty. Hypertension is recognized as a …

Abstract The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) is a prospective cohort study of
older adults in the Netherlands, initially based on a nationally representative sample of …

Background Frailty is strongly associated with cardiometabolic diseases in observational
studies. However, whether the observed association reflects causality requires clarification …

Cardiologists are more often confronted with older (> 60 years) cardiovascular disease
(CVD) patients. These patients have particular needs in clinical care because, for example …

Oxidative stress plays a key role in the aging process. Lifestyle behaviours including low
physical activity and inadequate nutritional habits in addition to genetic susceptibility and …

Objective Emerging evidence suggests that people with severe mental illness (SMI) have an
increased risk of frailty. We conducted a systematic review to investigate the prevalence and …

Background longitudinal evidence concerning frailty phenotype and the risk of
cardiovascular disease (CVD) remained insufficient, and whether CVD preventive strategies …