Bodh I. Jugdutt
Editor

2014

Mechanisms and Management

The concept for this book on aging and heart failure (HF) was born in the 1980s with the publication of the book entitled The Aging Heart: Its Function and Responses to Stress , edited by Dr. Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD. It was later fueled along in the early 1990s by the monograph entitled Inclusion of Elderly Individuals in Clinical Trials: Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiovascular Therapy as a Model by Dr. Nanette K. Wenger, MD. Concurrently, observations in population studies and large randomized clinical trials (RCTs) suggesting that the elderly patient after myocardial infarction was at higher risk for cardiovascular (CV) complications and adverse left ventricular remodeling leading to HF added fuel to the burning fire.