Frailty is associated with increased mortality 1 year after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in older patients with severe aortic stenosis, though it does not affect the risk of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A frailty score based on a geriatric assessment of age, comorbidities, and cognitive and physical status ...

A new study encourages clinicians to look at frailty on a continuum instead of a black-and-white approach. Authors of the study created a new score to help them assess how strong or weak a person may ...

The aim of this report was to provide quantitative information about the likelihood of a frail patient developing a postoperative complication. The assessment tool was the Hopkins Frailty Score, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Combining indices of frailty and trabecular bone score did not yield improved predictive accuracy for major ...

As our population ages and our medical care improves, we have increasing numbers of frail patients. The frail require gentler, longer, and frequently more expensive care. A new study looks at these ...

A study published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds that scoring patients for frailty can accurately predict adverse surgical outcomes. Researchers scored ...

Frailty is common in elderly people with cardiovascular disease and goes along with elevated mortality. However, no consensus exists on the definition of frailty. Many scores have been developed to ...

The study covered in this summary was published on papers.ssrn.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed. The incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) was higher in patients with a frail ...