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Cardiovascular Surgery in the Aging World

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The world is aging fast: in 2000 there were 600 million people aged 60 and over; there will be 1.2 billion by 2025 and 2 billion by 2050 [1]. Health care for this aging population has become a vital challenge not only in industrialized societies but also in many developing countries. Today, about two thirds of all older people are living in the developing world; by 2025, it will be 75 %. For instance, by the year 2036, the number of elderly Chinese people (aged 65 and above) is anticipated to surge to over 300 million and represent up to 20% of the nation’s total population [1, 2]. An identical aging trend is also apparent in the developed world, where the very old (age 80+) are the fastest growing population group (Fig. la). Interestingly, women outlive men in virtually all societies; consequently in very old age the ratio of women to men is 2:1 [1]. By the year 2050, 1 in 12 Americans will be older than 80 years [2], which will indeed impose a major burden on health care resources (Fig. 1b) [3].

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Wan, S., Underwood, M.J. (2007). Cardiovascular Surgery in the Aging World. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49518-7_38

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