Age-specific differences in non-cardiac comorbidities among elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure: a special focus on young-old, old-old, and oldest-old.

CONCLUSIONS: Non-cardiac comorbidities are nearly universal in three groups but obviously differ by age, and inappropriate medications are very common in elderly patients with HF. Further treatment strategies should be focused on providing optimal medications for age-specific non-cardiac conditions.
PMID: 31809320 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Chinese Medical Journal - December 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Yang MX, An H, Fan XQ, Tao LY, Tu Q, Qin L, Zhang LF, Feng DP, Wang Y, Sun L, Gao S, Guan WZ, Zheng JG, Ren JY Tags: Chin Med J (Engl) Source Type: research