Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among older patients with acute MI, those with frailty had lower odds of undergoing cardiac catheterization but, ...

Frailty increases the risk of bleeding by more than 50% in patients with acute MI undergoing PCI, a new study suggests. The researchers say more efforts are needed to use bleeding-reduction strategies ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...

In patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), frailty was associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The use of an oral anticoagulant (OAC) prescription was associated with substantial reductions in the ...

In the next 10 years, the number of Canadians living with frailty will grow to more than two million. Frailty matters because it not only affects seniors' ability to function, but also puts their ...

Some of the most powerful interventions to slow or improve frailty are also the most ordinary: regular movement, adequate nutrition, and meaningful social connection.

A retrospective cohort study found that frailty was prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and that the adverse effects could include end stage kidney disease (ESKD) and mortality. An ...