High level of physical activity preserves the cardioprotective effect of preinfarction angina in elderly patients
Pasquale Abete, MD, PhD*,*,
Nicola Ferrara, MD
,
Francesco Cacciatore, MD, PhD* ||,
Elio Sagnelli, MD*,
Maria Manzi, MD*,
Vincenzo Carnovale, MD*,
Claudio Calabrese, MD* ||,
Domenico de Santis, MD*,
Gianluca Testa, MD*,
Giancarlo Longobardi, MD
,
Claudio Napoli, MD, PhD, FACA
¶ and
Franco Rengo, MD*
* Cattedra di Geriatria, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Scienze Cardiovascolari ed Immunologiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II," Naples, Italy
Cattedra di Medicina Interna, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Scienze Cardiovascolari ed Immunologiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II," Naples, Italy
Cattedra di Geriatria, Dipartimento delle Malattie del Metabolismo e dellInvecchiamento, Seconda Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy
Centro Medico di Telese Terme, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Benevento, Italy
|| U.O. Riabilitazione, A.S.L. 4 Basso Molise, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Larino/Termoli, Italy
¶ Department of Medicine-0682, University of California, San Diego, California, USA

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Figure 1 Death, cardiogenic shock and the combined end points in elderly patients with and without preinfarction angina (left) and according to the quartiles of physical activity (PASE) (right).
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Figure 2 Death, cardiogenic shock and the combined end points in elderly patients with (ANGINA, right) and without preinfarction angina (NO ANGINA, left) according to the quartiles of physical activity (PASE).
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