Frailty and Cardiovascular Diseases: Research Into an Elderly Population

ISBN-13: 9783030333294 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 154 str.

Nicola Veronese

Recenzje

“The primary audience is medical providers caring for older patients, specifically those with cardiovascular diseases. … This is a very enjoyable book. … The authors and contributors have done a wonderful job on this much-needed book for geriatric and cardiac practitioners.” (Belinda Setters, Doody’s Book Reviews, March 6, 2020)

Spis treści

Preface 

Frailty: what is it?
Marco Proietti, Matteo Cesari 

Tools for assessing frailty in older people: general concepts
Finbarr Martin,Aisling M O’Halloran 

Epidemiology of frailty in older people
Sabine Rohrmann 

Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly
Marianna Noale, Federica Limongi,Stefania Maggi 

The impact of frailty on the role of the classical cardiovascular risk factors
Karolina Piotrowicz, Jerzy Gąsowski 

Frailty as cardiovascular risk factor (and vice versa)
Nicola Veronese 

Inflammation, frailty and cardiovascular disease
Pinar Soysal, Ferhat Arik, Lee Smith, Sarah E. Jackson, Ahmet Turan Isik 

Oxidative stress, frailty and cardiovascular disease: current evidence
Izabella Uchmanowicz 

The importance of cellular senescence in frailty and cardiovascular diseases
Virginia Boccardi, Patrizia Mecocci 

Comprehensive geriatric assessment in cardiovascular disease
Jacopo Demurtas, Fiona Ecarnot, Simone Cernesi, Marco Solari, Miguel Angel Munoz, Alberto Cella

 Frailty in cardiac surgery
Samuele Baldasseroni, Alessandra Pratesi, Francesco Orso, Aldo Lo Forte, Anna Chiara Baroncini, Giulia Lucarelli, Camilla Ghiara, Francesca Caramelli, Niccolò Marchionni, Andrea Ungar 

Physical exercise for frailty and cardiovascular disease
Natalia Aquaroni Ricci, Ana Izabel Lopes Cunha 

Cardiac rehabilitation for frail older people
Amanda Buttery 

Future perspectives
Timo Strandberg

Blurb

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.