Of all the risk factors to cardiovascular disease (CVD), age is the most powerful: CVD
incidence and prevalence rise progressively at all ages beyond young adulthood. This …

Although the relative risk of high total cholesterol or low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol
decreases with advancing age, this is offset by the greater absolute and attributable risk in …

Atherosclerosis is an age-related process that reflects the interaction between aging per se
(primary aging) and factors that influence the rate of atherogenesis. Some of the latter are …

Aging and atherosclerosis are inextricably intertwined, time being required for the
expression of both. A multidimensional strategy can be formulated whereby atherogenesis …

Risk factors that predict atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in younger individuals also
predict risk in older people. Although the relative risk of cardiovascular disease associated …

With an increasing proportion of the population reaching advanced age, cardiovascular
disease" has become an urgent public health concern because it is among the most …

Not long ago the notion of the prevention of atherosclerosis in the elderly would almost have
been regarded as a non sequitur. Atherosclerosis was viewed as an inevitable …

CARDIOVASCULAR AGING, DISEASE AND LIFESTYLE: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS A
definitive understanding of cardiovascular aging will require the integration of discoveries …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), comprising heart disease, peripheral arterial disease, and
stroke, remains the number one killer in the United States, accounting for 35% of all deaths …

Over the decade since the original scientific statement was published, there has been an
explosion of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) addressing secondary prevention of …