A new frailty index is better at predicting functional decline after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) than other established risk scores such as the EuroSCORE or Society of Thoracic ...
A study comparing biological aging indicators found that Rockwood Frailty Index was a stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than leukocyte telomere length in adults without prior CVD. The ...
Multiple tools have been developed to help identify and stratify older patients with myeloma. The International Myeloma Working Group proposed a frailty index on the basis of chronological age plus ...
A new frailty index developed by clinicians from Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center, New York City, aligns well with the geriatric assessment but is easier to use and could be helpful for ...
Adding frailty assessment to conventional risk scores improves the ability to predict 1-year mortality after TAVR, with the odds of death increasing alongside worsening degrees of frailty, according ...
Frailty was calculated via a frailty index (FI) using 49 variables in the NHANES dataset related to signs, symptoms, disabilities, diseases and laboratory measurements. Results found that frailty was ...
We calculated an FI for 3,807 veterans age 65 years or older. Among the cohort, 28.7% were classified as nonfrail, 41.3% prefrail, 21.6% mildly frail, 6.6% moderately frail, and 1.7% severely frail.
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