The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 48% of death in industrialized countries is caused by cardiovascular diseases. In elderly subjects cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of morbidity and mortality, and it has been estimated that about 80% of deaths from coronary heart disease occur in this specific class of age. The guidelines for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease have been already well established, but recently also the secondary prevention has been turned in account in the light of new knowledges like the high cost/benefit ratio of primary prevention, the observation that in patients with coronary heart disease the incidence of new events is still related to the risk factors, the success of several secondary prevention trials. The main objective of secondary prevention is to slow the progression of coronary atherosclerosis and to reduce the risk for thrombotic complications, reducing in this way the incidence of new coronary fatal and non-fatal ...
La prevenzione secondaria della cardiopatia coronarica nell’anziano
Fellin R.;Zuliani G.;Volpato S.
1995
Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 48% of death in industrialized countries is caused by cardiovascular diseases. In elderly subjects cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of morbidity and mortality, and it has been estimated that about 80% of deaths from coronary heart disease occur in this specific class of age. The guidelines for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease have been already well established, but recently also the secondary prevention has been turned in account in the light of new knowledges like the high cost/benefit ratio of primary prevention, the observation that in patients with coronary heart disease the incidence of new events is still related to the risk factors, the success of several secondary prevention trials. The main objective of secondary prevention is to slow the progression of coronary atherosclerosis and to reduce the risk for thrombotic complications, reducing in this way the incidence of new coronary fatal and non-fatal ...I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
