Association of silent myocardial ischemia with new atherothrombotic brain infarction in older patients with extracranial internal or common carotid arterial disease with and without previous atherothrombotic brain infarction

Aging and cardiovascular disease. Use of subclinical measurements

This article examines the use of subclinical measurements in cardiovascular disease in the elderly. In the past 10 years, the development of new technology to measure subclinical disease has provided the opportunity to evaluate the prevalence of subclinical disease, the risk factors for subclinical disease, and the risk for clinical disease given the presence or absence of subclinical disease.