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 . A frailty score based on a geriatric assessment of age, comorbidities, and cognitive and physical status ...

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 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 ...

New Orleans— An innovative study by Dr. Hernan Bazan at Ochsner Health and colleagues reveals how frailty assessments can accurately predict outcomes in urgent carotid artery interventions for stroke ...

The report was published Monday in BMC Geriatrics. Researchers wanted to see if the Clinical Frailty Score could predict death in critically ill older adults (over the age of 70) who were admitted to ...

We used to say, ‘You know it when you see it,’” said Dr. Peter Abadir, an associate professor of geriatric medicine and ...

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 ...