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Geriatric Cardiology : A Fellow’s Perspective


Is the term geriatric cardiology redundant? Technically, geriatric cardiology refers to cardiovascular care of patients 65 years of age or older. The United States Census Bureau predicts that by the year 2050, almost 81 million Americans will fall into this demographic. The geriatric population is further broken down into elderly (between ages 75 and 84
years) and very elderly (85 years of age or older), with numbers reaching 40 million and 13 million
people, respectively (1). Not surprisingly, a recent survey found that almost 60% of patients who
visited cardiologists over the last year would be considered geriatric on the basis of age alone (2).


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JACC 2014;64(13):1401-3
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