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RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
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Sympathetic nervous system in age-related cardiovascular dysfunction: Pathophysiology and therapeutic perspective.

Cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure and metabolic syndrome have high prevalence in the elderly population and are leading causes of death, disability, hospitalization, driving high healthcare costs worldwide. To reduce this social and economic burden there is urgency to find effective therapeutic targets. Several studies have linked the dysfunction of the Sympathetic Nervous System and β-adrenergic receptor signaling with the pathogenesis of age-related cardiovascular diseases. Therapeutic treatments that restore their functions have been shown to be effective in subjects with cardiovascular comorbidities. In fact, lifestyle interventions (such as exercise training and diet) as well as pharmacologic treatments (e.g. β-blockers or moxonidine) and mini-invasive interventions (renal sympathetic denervation) have beneficial effects on age-related cardiovascular diseases. In the current "Medicine in focus" article we will discuss the pathogenic role of the Sympathetic Nervous System in age-related cardiovascular diseases as well as current and new therapeutic approaches.

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