Care of older adults
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Susan P Bell, Nileshkumar Patel, Nish Patel, Rajesh Sonani, Apurva Badheka, Daniel E Forman Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA Department of Cardiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA Department of Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA Department of Cardiology, the Everett Clinic, Everett, WA, USA Section of Geriatric Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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