Preface
Frailty: what is it?
Marco Proietti, Matteo Cesari
Tools for assessing frailty in older people: general concepts
Finbarr Martin, Aisling M O'Halloran
Epidemiology of frailty in older people
Sabine Rohrmann
Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly
Marianna Noale, Federica Limongi, Stefania Maggi
The impact of frailty on the role of the classical cardiovascular risk factors
Karolina Piotrowicz, Jerzy Gąsowski
Frailty as cardiovascular risk factor (and vice versa)
Nicola Veronese
Inflammation, frailty and cardiovascular disease
Pinar Soysal, Ferhat Arik, Lee Smith, Sarah E. Jackson, Ahmet Turan Isik
Oxidative stress, frailty and cardiovascular disease: current evidence
Izabella Uchmanowicz
The importance of cellular senescence in frailty and cardiovascular diseases
Virginia Boccardi, Patrizia Mecocci
Comprehensive geriatric assessment in cardiovascular disease
Jacopo Demurtas, Fiona Ecarnot, Simone Cernesi, Marco Solari, Miguel Angel Munoz, Alberto Cella
Frailty in cardiac surgery
Samuele Baldasseroni, Alessandra Pratesi, Francesco Orso, Aldo Lo Forte, Anna Chiara Baroncini, Giulia Lucarelli, Camilla Ghiara, Francesca Caramelli, Niccolò Marchionni, Andrea Ungar
Physical exercise for frailty and cardiovascular disease
Natalia Aquaroni Ricci, Ana Izabel Lopes Cunha
Cardiac rehabilitation for frail older people
Amanda Buttery
Future perspectives
Timo Strandberg