STUDIES ON THE AGING HEART

作者：Harvey Poliakoff · 发表于：A M A Archives of Internal Medicine · 年份：1953 · DOI：10.1001/archinte.1953.00240180076009 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity

THE PHYSICIAN quite frequently has to decide whether certain changes the heart presents are within "normal" limits or beyond them. This is often a difficult decision to make in the younger person and it is more so in the old. And yet the decision has to be made, since the advice of the physician as to medication and as to ordering a different way of life and forecasting life expectancy will depend on it. This report, the third in a series on the aging heart,1is concerned with the overall pathological and clinical findings in persons who have reached the age of 60 with no gross coronary artery disease or other heart ailment. Heart disease is not an inevitable accompaniment of old age. Newer research2has uncovered a few of the predisposing or etiological factors in arteriosclerotic heart disease or, specifically, coronary arteriosclerosis. The prospects for a better