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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on April 23, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn184
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Acute coronary syndrome in the elderly

Christiaan J. M. Vrints*

Department of Cardiology, University of Antwerp-University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2650, Edegem, Belgium

* Corresponding author. Tel: +32 3 8213525, Fax: +32 3 8302305, Email: christiaan.vrints@ua.ac.be

This editorial refers to ‘Management and 6-month outcomes in elderly and very elderly patients with high-risk non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events’{dagger}, by G. Devlin et al., on page 1275

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In the well developed countries of the world, ischaemic heart disease is the prevailing cause of death among patients aged >65 years.1 In Europe, more than in other countries in the world, we will witness during the next few decades a dramatic surge of patients with ischaemic heart disease due to the progressive ageing of our population.2 Because of the continuing increase in life expectancy, many of these patients with ischaemic heart disease will be aged >75 years. Similar to women, elderly patients are under-represented in clinical trials. If not excluded by age, many elderly . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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