Frailty Syndrome
Frailty syndrome: an overview
... Abstract: Frailty is a common and important geriatric syndrome characterized by age-associated declines in physiologic reserve and function across multiorgan systems, leading to increased vulnerability for ...
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Frailty syndrome in ambulatory patients with COPD
... Frailty syndrome was defined as a clinical syndrome meeting three or more of the five phenotypic criteria included in the five-item FRAIL scale: fatigue (feeling exhausted most of the time), ...
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Effect of frailty syndrome on treatment compliance in older hypertensive patients
... measures. Frailty exerts detrimental effects not only on a disease outcome but also on treatment ...“frailty syndrome” (FS) has been existing for a long time in American geriatrics, to describe the ...
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Analysis of the relationship between depression and frailty syndrome in the elderly
... of frailty states associated to higher odds for adverse health conditions, especially those related to disability (Vieira et ...of frailty, indicating that this association may be related to the overlap of ...
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Cognitive function in the prefrailty and frailty syndrome
... between frailty and specific cognitive domains is limited to a small number of ...between frailty and cognitive function is important for understanding the chal- lenges of managing each ...calculating ...
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Association between Frailty Syndrome and Anemia in Community Dwelling Elderly
... topic. Frailty syndrome (FS) is a multi- dimensional clinical condition characterized by loss of physiological and cog- nitive reserves across multiple organ ...Fried frailty phenotype is the main ...
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Factors associated to frailty syndrome in elderly hospitalized
... the frailty syndrome in the elderly hospitalized in a teaching ...some frailty level, with a score average of ...the frailty syndrome: low schooling ...
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<p>Quality of Life and Frailty Syndrome in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation</p>
... Population aging is associated with a progressive accumulation of cardiovascular risk factors, an increased prevalence of degenerative and involutional disorders, and alterations in the way the central nervous system, ...
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Frailty syndrome and self-care ability in elderly patients with heart failure
... clinic. Frailty syndrome was assessed using the Tilburg Frailty Indicator, a self-report questionnaire, and self- care behavior was assessed using the European Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior ...
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Prevalence of Frailty Syndrome in the Elderly and Associated Factors in Brazil
... Frailty Syndrome was found in 59.1% of the elderly studied. A systematic review [6] observed in the analysis of 18 studies, a wide variation in prevalence of frailty in general from 6.9% to 21% for ...
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<p>The relationship between frailty syndrome and quality of life in older patients following acute coronary syndrome</p>
... onary syndrome; AGS, the American Geriatrics Society; AHA, American Heart Association; BMI, body mass index; CAD, coronary artery disease; CHS, Cardiovascular Health Study scale; CI, cognitive impair- ment; CVD, ...
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Cross-cultural adaptation and reliability testing of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator for optimizing care of Polish patients with frailty syndrome
... TFI consists of two different parts. One addresses sociodemo- graphic characteristics of a participant (sex, age, marital status, country of origin, educational level, and monthly income) and potential determinants of ...
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<p>Frailty syndrome: implications and challenges for health care policy</p>
... for frailty screening should be quick to admin- istrate (no more than 10 minutes to complete); require no special equipment; validated; and be meant for ...Existing frailty instruments meeting these four ...
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The influence of frailty syndrome on medication adherence among elderly patients with hypertension
... of frailty may help to optimize medication prescribed for older people and target health care resources more effectively and appropriately, improving the care of all older people with ...When frailty can be ...
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<p>Modified Frailty as a Novel Factor in Predicting the Maintenance of the Sinus Rhythm After Electrical Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly Population</p>
... of frailty syndrome. 1,6 Frailty syndrome is a dynamic process that leads to a reduction in the physical, mental and/or social functions that are associated with the aging ...9 Frailty ...
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<p>Frailty in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Risk of Exacerbations and Hospitalizations</p>
... Baseline frailty measures included exhaustion, weakness, low activity, slowness, and under- ...the frailty syndrome was not associated with COPD exacerba- ...the frailty syndrome, ...
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<p>Modified frailty as a novel factor in predicting the response to cardiac resynchronization in the elderly population</p>
... of frailty syndrome, which in diseases of the cardiovascular system are more common in women than in ...that frailty syndrome may be one of the missing parameters that should be assessed ...
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Frailty and quality of life in elderly patients with acute coronary syndrome
... Background: Frail elderly people are at risk of developing adverse health outcomes such as disability, hospitalization, and mortality. In recent years, the literature has drawn attention to the role of frailty ...
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Frailty in patients with acute coronary syndrome: comparison between tools for comprehensive geriatric assessment and the Tilburg Frailty Indicator
... ie, frailty syndrome, gains special ...ing frailty – the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) and its domains (mental and physical) – with other research tools commonly used for comprehensive ...
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<p>Frailty in Older Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in Vietnam</p>
... patients were more likely to present with ST-segment eleva- tion myocardial infarction (STEMI) or non-ST segment ele- vation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) rather than unstable angina. Overall, 50.3% of the participants ...
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