Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly

After a certain age, one is elderly, aged, venerable, and patriarchal. Or just plain old. When I became old, I did not know it. I do know it now because of a syndrome of which I had previously been unaware. It is quite simple-when it hurts, it works; when it doesn''t hurt, it doesn''t work! Writing about the old is a preoccupation of the young, and that is as it should be because it is the young w...