Chronic heart failure (CHF) is frequently linked to clinical frailty, a complex geriatric condition associated with negative outcomes. However, the full characterization of frailty is still debated. Fried and colleagues focused on a ‘physical phenotype’ of frailty based on the assessment of unintentional weight loss, muscle weakness, slow walking speed, low physical activity, and exhaustion,1 while Rockwood and colleagues fostered a multidimensional concept involving, besides physical impairments, comorbidity, disability, mental, nutritional, and social components (known as the ‘Canadian frailty index’).
Multidimensional frailty evaluation in elderly outpatients with chronic heart failure: A prospective study / Testa, G.; Liguori, I.; Curcio, F.; Russo, G.; Bulli, G.; Galizia, G.; Della-Morte, D.; Gargiulo, G.; Basile, C.; Cacciatore, F.; Bonaduce, D.; Abete, P.. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY. - ISSN 2047-4881. - 26:10(2019), pp. 1115-1117. [10.1177/2047487319827460]
Multidimensional frailty evaluation in elderly outpatients with chronic heart failure: A prospective study
Bulli G.;Cacciatore F.;Bonaduce D.;Abete P.
2019
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Chronic heart failure (CHF) is frequently linked to clinical frailty, a complex geriatric condition associated with negative outcomes. However, the full characterization of frailty is still debated. Fried and colleagues focused on a ‘physical phenotype’ of frailty based on the assessment of unintentional weight loss, muscle weakness, slow walking speed, low physical activity, and exhaustion,1 while Rockwood and colleagues fostered a multidimensional concept involving, besides physical impairments, comorbidity, disability, mental, nutritional, and social components (known as the ‘Canadian frailty index’).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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