Cardiovascular Disease in the Octogenarian and Beyond
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: October 21, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781853175817
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Geriatric medicine; Medical diagnosis; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Cardiology; Gerontology; Laboratory Medicine; Medical / Laboratory Medicine
First sentence: The current average life expectancy of an 80 year old individual in the USA is 8 years, with the subset of the population older than 85 years of the population older than 85 years of age constituting the fastest growing segment of US society.