How to screen frailty in outpatients with heart failure: multimodality assessment vs. the Vulnerable Elderly Survey 13 (VES-13) scale

Abstract:

Background During two decades we have been screening fragility in outpatients with heart failure (HF) with a multimodality assessment using several geriatric scales, showing that frailty or fragility is frequent in HF patients, even in young patients, and we demonstrated that this identified fragility played an important prognostic role. Frailty is a medical syndrome with multiple causes and contributors that increases outpatients' vulnerability so a minimal stress can cause functional impairment, with a major risk of dependency, even death. Frailty can be reversible or attenuated by interventions. Nowadays several specific scales for fragility or frailty detection are widely available. One of them, the Vulnerable Elderly Survey 13 (VES-13) has scarcely been used in HF. Purpose To assess the prevalence of fragility in an outpatient HF Clinic at first visit using both the VES-13 scale and a …

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2022

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