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The Nurse Is Providing Care to an Older Adult Patient

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The nurse is providing care to an older adult patient who is at risk for congestive heart failure (CHF) . The nurse correlates this increased risk to which age-related cardiovascular change?


A) Stiffened artery walls
B) Increased size of the left atrium
C) Reduced number of pacemaker cells in the sinoatrial (SA) node
D) Decreased cardiac responsiveness to beta-adrenergic stimuli

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