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Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.<\/p>\n

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It turns out that the Isley Brothers, who sang that 1966 Motown hit \u201cThis Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You),\u201d were onto something when they linked age to an aching and flagging heart.<\/p>\n

Heart disease, the nation\u2019s leading cause of death and disability, has been diagnosed in about 6 percent of Americans ages 45 to 64, but in more than 18 percent of those over 65, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/a><\/p>\n

Old hearts are physiologically different. \u201cThe heart gets stiffer as we age,\u201d said Dr. John Dodson, director of the geriatric cardiology program at NYU Langone Health. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t fill with blood as easily. The muscles don\u2019t relax as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Age also changes the blood vessels, which can grow rigid and cause hypertension, and the nerve fibers that send electrical impulses to the heart. It affects other organs and systems that play a role in cardiovascular health, too. \u201cAfter age 75 is when things accelerate,\u201d Dr. Dodson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But in recent years, dramatic improvements in treatments for many kinds of cardiovascular conditions have helped reduce both heart attacks<\/a> and cardiac deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCardiology has been blessed with a lot of progress and research and drug development,\u201d said Dr. Karen Alexander, who teaches geriatric cardiology at Duke University. \u201cThe medications are better than ever, and we know how to use them better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.It turns out that the Isley Brothers, who sang that 1966 Motown hit \u201cThis Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You),\u201d were onto something when they linked age to an aching and flagging heart.Heart disease, the nation\u2019s leading cause of death and disability, has been diagnosed in about 6 percent of Americans ages 45 to 64, but in more than 18 percent of those over 65, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Old hearts are physiologically different. \u201cThe heart gets stiffer as we age,\u201d said Dr. John Dodson, director of the geriatric cardiology program at NYU Langone Health. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t fill with blood as easily. The muscles don\u2019t relax as well.\u201dAge also changes the blood vessels, which can grow rigid and cause hypertension, and the nerve fibers that send electrical impulses to the heart. It affects other organs and systems that play a role in cardiovascular health, too. \u201cAfter age 75 is when things accelerate,\u201d Dr. Dodson said.But in recent years, dramatic improvements in treatments for many kinds of cardiovascular conditions have helped reduce both heart attacks and cardiac deaths.\u201cCardiology has been blessed with a lot of progress and research and drug development,\u201d said Dr. Karen Alexander, who teaches geriatric cardiology at Duke University. \u201cThe medications are better than ever, and we know how to use them better.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22314,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22315,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22312\/revisions\/22315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}