Clinical implications of physiological changes in the aging heart

Drugs & Aging
K G Pugh, J Y Wei

Abstract

Elderly individuals experience a disproportionate burden from cardiovascular disease. Global changes in aging will have a significant impact on the future of medical practice. However, most physicians have little formal training in geriatric medicine and sometimes fail to distinguish disease states from normal aging. Increasingly, it is recognised that a sedentary lifestyle may be responsible for a large fraction of the so-called 'age-related' changes in the cardiovascular system. Nonetheless, well characterised changes do occur in most individuals with aging. Loss of myocytes with subsequent hypertrophy of the remaining cells is usually observed. Calcification involving the conduction and valvular apparatus is seen in most elderly individuals and may predispose to the common arrhythmias of old age. Age-related loss of arterial compliance contributes to isolated systolic hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy. Despite these changes, for the majority of healthy older adults, cardiac output is well maintained in the basal state through use of the Frank-Starling principle, in the setting of reduced early diastolic filling. Myocardial relaxation is slowed in part due to age-related changes in the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ...Continue Reading

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