Introduction: Life expectancy improvement for people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is coming up against the problems associated with aging and chronic diseases. Frailty is a concern affecting a growin...
Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of Peking Union Medical College(No.3332020007).
Objective:Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome defined as multiple deficits,impairing the capacity to figure out insult.Previous studies have reported a significant association between frailty and mortality in strok...
This work was supported by the Fudan University Nursing Research Foundation(Fund#FNF201706).
Objectives:The integrated model of frailty shifted the physiologically-dominated view to an integrated and multidisciplinary view of frailty and adopted an integrated and holistic approach to the complex challenges fa...
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC0900901,2016YFC1301002,2017YFC0908803,2018YFC1312501);a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81530016).
Background:Elderly adults with atrial fi brillation(AF)are at increased risk of frailty and thromboembolic complications.However,studies on the prevalence of frailty in AF patients and data on the relationship between...
Background: Older diabetic patients are more likely to be frail than those who do not have diabetes. Frailty is an important risk factor for both mortality and disability in older patients with type 2 diabetes. Howeve...
To the Editor: Frailty is defined as a vulnerable state that places older adults at increased risk for adverse health outcomes, and can explain substantial heterogeneity of health status. Previous studies have demonst...
Objective To determine the association between plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) level in patients with heart failure (HF) and physical frailty as well as with each domain of physical frailty. Methods Two hun...
The number of older end-stage renal disease patients being referred for kidney transplantation continues to increase. This rise is occurring alongside the continually increasing prevalence of older end-stage renal dis...
Background: Delirium is a high prevalent postoperative complication in older cardiac surgery patients and can have drastic consequence for the patient. Preventive interventions, diagnosis and treatment of delirium req...