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Frailty and Cardiovascular Disease

February 7, 2024 Andrew To

Clinical Frailty Scale from Dalhousie University

Frailty is relevant to cardiology because the disease process predispose to physical impairments that ultimate worsen the cardiovascular illness.

The phenomenon of increased vulnerability to stressors due to decreased physiological reserves leads to poor clinical outcomes after cardiovascular insults. Equally CVD worsens frailty due to hospitalisation, debilitation, immobility, systemic illness that underpins physiological deterioration in physical frailty. In cardiology, frailty is highly prevalent in patients with heart failure, valvular heart disease, but also myocardial infarction.

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In Coronary artery disease, Valvular heart disease Tags Frailty

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