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Cardiovascular ageing and heart failure
Author(s) -
Macdonald Peter S,
O'Rourke Michael F
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb123374.x
Subject(s) - heart failure , cardiology , medicine , blood pressure , ageing , diastole , arterial stiffness , diastolic heart failure
Increase in arterial stiffness with age causes elevation of systolic blood pressure, which is the most common antecedent of heart failure in older people. Heart failure results from systolic and diastolic dysfunction; in either case, reducing mechanical load is the basis for preventing and treating heart failure.