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Coexisting frailty with heart failure
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Abstract
People over 65 years of age constitute over 80% of patients with heart failure (HF) and the incidence of HF is 10 per 1,000 in people aged above 65 years. Approximately 25% of older patients with HF exhibit evidence of frailty. Frail patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) have a worse prognosis than non-frail patients, and frailty is an independent risk factor for incident HF among older people. Planning the treatment of individuals with HF and concomitant frailty, one should consider not only the limitations imposed by frailty syndrome (FS) but also those associated with the underlying heart disease. It needs to be emphasized that all patients with HF and concomitant FS require individualized treatment.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Frontiers in physiology / Frontiers Research Foundation (Lausanne, Switzerland) - [Lausanne], 2010, currens
Publication
[Lausanne] : Frontiers Research Foundation , 2019
ISSN
1664-042X
DOI
10.3389/FPHYS.2019.00791
Volume/pages
10 (2019) , 9 p.
Article Reference
791
ISI
000473689300001
Pubmed ID
31333480
Medium
E-only publicatie
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