Caring for the Ages
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JAMDA
April 8, 2021
Frailty and All-Cause Mortality in Older Adults: A Risk Assessment
JAMDA
November 9, 2017
Frailty and Clinical Outcomes in Advanced Heart Failure Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Frailty has been identified as a risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes after cardiac intervention or surgery. However, whether it increases the risk of adverse outcomes in patients undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy has been controversial. Therefore, we conducted a systematic revi...
JAMDA
July 31, 2018
Frailty and Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Frailty is a known risk factor for adverse outcomes after cardiac interventions. However, the extent to which it increases the likelihood of adverse outcomes in heart failure (HF) patients remains unexplored. Therefore, we conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify the impact of frailty...
JAMDA
August 10, 2017
Frailty and Malnutrition: Related and Distinct Syndrome Prevalence and Association among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies
The association between frailty and malnutrition is widely noted, but the common and distinct aspects of this relationship are not well understood. We investigated the prevalence of prefrailty/frailty and malnutrition/nutritional risk; their overlapping prevalence; compared their sociodemographic, physical...
JAMDA
June 8, 2020
Frailty and Mortality in Hospitalized Older Adults With COVID-19: Retrospective Observational Study
To determine the association between frailty and short-term mortality in older adults hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
JAMDA
November 1, 2017
Frailty and Mortality Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Frailty has been identified as a risk factor for mortality. However, whether frailty increases mortality risk in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been controversial. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the frailty measures and mortality outcomes ...
JAMDA
March 6, 2017
Frailty and Multimorbidity: Different Ways of Thinking About Geriatrics
The terms and are increasingly used in the medical literature to measure the risk profile of an older individual in order to support clinical decisions and design ad hoc interventions. The construct of multimorbidity was initially developed and used in nongeriatric settings. It generates a monodimensiona...
JAMDA
June 3, 2017
Frailty and Risk of Adverse Outcomes in Hospitalized Older Adults: A Comparison of Different Frailty Measures
There is a paucity of data for the assessment of frailty in acutely ill hospitalized older adults. We aim to (1) compare the performance of frailty measures [5-item scale of fatigue, resistance, ambulation, illnesses, and loss of weight) (FRAIL), Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI), and Clinical Frailty Scale ...
JAMDA
August 26, 2016