Main description:

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.

Contents:

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 Gasowski

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, Niccolo 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