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Cardiovascular ageing and heart failure
1Department of Cardiology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW. pmacdonald@stvincents.com.au
The Medical Journal of Australia
|December 16, 1998
Abstract:
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.