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 . Combining indices of frailty and trabecular bone score did not yield improved predictive accuracy for major ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Frailty was associated with loosening, infection, instability, longer length of stay, readmission and increased ...

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 ...

A study of patients hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation found that exclusively using the population-based Hospital Frailty Risk Score tool to assess for frailty ...

(UPDATED) The prevalence of frailty prior to cardiac surgery is high, varying widely depending on the tool used to capture it, and it’s significantly associated with a higher risk of patient-defined ...