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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited Commentary

Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiac Surgery - White 503, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114

(Email: cakins@partners.org).

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Optimistic observers of America’s elderly contend that they have lifestyles more consistent with younger people of prior generations, "60 is not only the new 50 ... it’s the new 45" [1]. Extension of that philosophy to the truly elderly can be fraught with danger. Although surgeons realize physiologic age can differ from chronologic age, few suggest that today’s 90 is anything but yesterday’s 90. The reason resides in basic biology.

Saying "Americans live longer today" can be interpreted . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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