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Fig. 13.1 Percent distributions of age classes in patients with ST elevation (STEMI) and non-ST elevation (NSTEMI) myocardial infarction admitted to the Italian coronary care unit (CCU) network. Data are…

Fig. 12.1 Estimated 2010 prevalence of atrial fibrillation in the developed countries participating to the “Global Burden of Disease Study” (Figure drawn by the data reported in Ref. [3]) Fig….

Fig. 10.1 Sclerotic glomeruli in the aging kidney 10.1.2 Tubulointerstitial Changes As described for glomeruli, the overall number of tubules decreases with age [9], the proximal tubular length is also…

I. A normal healthy patient II. A patient with mild systemic disease III. A patient with severe systemic disease IV. A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant…

Fig. 2.1 Gender- and age-specific rates of all events and of incident events for stroke, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death combined and acute peripheral vascular events (Modified from Rothwell…

Fig. 8.1 Mini-Cog test (Borson et al. [53]): administration and scoring Ask the patient to repeat three semantically unrelated words. Ask the patient to draw a clock. Draw a circle….

Fig. 7.1 Incidence rates of syncope according to age and sex (Reproduced with permission from Soteriades ES et al. [3]) In an emergency department (ED) study [4], the mean age…

Fig. 9.1 Prevalence of degenerative calcific aortic stenosis [4]. Aortic stenosis was defined based on combined criteria of velocity ratio ≤0.35 and aortic valve area ≤1.2 cm2 9.2 Clinical Manifestations…