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Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Physical Activity for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly

Cardiovascular diseases create an important burden on the public health systems, especially in the elderly, mostly because this group of patients frequently suffer from multiple comorbidities. Accumulating cardiovascular risk factors during their lifetime has a detrimental effect on an older adult‘s...

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Autores principales: Ciumărnean, Lorena, Milaciu, Mircea Vasile, Negrean, Vasile, Orășan, Olga Hilda, Vesa, Stefan Cristian, Sălăgean, Octavia, Iluţ, Silvina, Vlaicu, Sonia Irina
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010467
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010207
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author Ciumărnean, Lorena
Milaciu, Mircea Vasile
Negrean, Vasile
Orășan, Olga Hilda
Vesa, Stefan Cristian
Sălăgean, Octavia
Iluţ, Silvina
Vlaicu, Sonia Irina
author_facet Ciumărnean, Lorena
Milaciu, Mircea Vasile
Negrean, Vasile
Orășan, Olga Hilda
Vesa, Stefan Cristian
Sălăgean, Octavia
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description Cardiovascular diseases create an important burden on the public health systems, especially in the elderly, mostly because this group of patients frequently suffer from multiple comorbidities. Accumulating cardiovascular risk factors during their lifetime has a detrimental effect on an older adult‘s health status. The modifiable and non-modifiable cardiovascular risk factors are very diverse, and are frequently in a close relationship with the metabolic comorbidities of the elderly, mainly obesity and Diabetes Mellitus. In this review, we aim to present the most important cardiovascular risk factors which link aging and cardiovascular diseases, starting from the pathophysiological links between these factors and the aging process. Next, we will further review the main interconnections between obesity and Diabetes Mellitus and cardiovascular diseases of the elderly. Lastly, we consider the most important aspects related to prevention through lifestyle changes and physical activity on the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly.
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spelling pubmed-87511472022-01-12 Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Physical Activity for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly Ciumărnean, Lorena Milaciu, Mircea Vasile Negrean, Vasile Orășan, Olga Hilda Vesa, Stefan Cristian Sălăgean, Octavia Iluţ, Silvina Vlaicu, Sonia Irina Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Cardiovascular diseases create an important burden on the public health systems, especially in the elderly, mostly because this group of patients frequently suffer from multiple comorbidities. Accumulating cardiovascular risk factors during their lifetime has a detrimental effect on an older adult‘s health status. The modifiable and non-modifiable cardiovascular risk factors are very diverse, and are frequently in a close relationship with the metabolic comorbidities of the elderly, mainly obesity and Diabetes Mellitus. In this review, we aim to present the most important cardiovascular risk factors which link aging and cardiovascular diseases, starting from the pathophysiological links between these factors and the aging process. Next, we will further review the main interconnections between obesity and Diabetes Mellitus and cardiovascular diseases of the elderly. Lastly, we consider the most important aspects related to prevention through lifestyle changes and physical activity on the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly. MDPI 2021-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8751147/ /pubmed/35010467 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010207 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ciumărnean, Lorena
Milaciu, Mircea Vasile
Negrean, Vasile
Orășan, Olga Hilda
Vesa, Stefan Cristian
Sălăgean, Octavia
Iluţ, Silvina
Vlaicu, Sonia Irina
Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Physical Activity for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly
title Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Physical Activity for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly
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title_fullStr Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Physical Activity for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly
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title_short Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Physical Activity for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly
title_sort cardiovascular risk factors and physical activity for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010467
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010207
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