Internal thoracic artery grafting in the elderly patient undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting: room for process improvement?
Use of the internal thoracic artery in elderly patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting provides an acute survival benefit. This benefit is similar to that seen in younger patients and persists after adjusting for both patient and provider selection factors. The internal thoracic artery appears to be underused in elderly patients undergoing bypass grafting and is a potential area for quality improvement.
Female elite athletes have 3-20% higher BMD than non-athletic controls and HI sports athletes have 3-22% higher BMD compared with MI and LI sports athletes. Low BMD is two to three times more common in non-athletic premenopausal women than in elite athletes.