Role of frailty on cardiac rehabilitation in hospitalized older patients

Background Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality, morbidity, and disability in the world, especially in the older adults. A relevant proportion of patients admitted to Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) may suffer from frailty, a complex geriatric syndrome with multifactorial aetiology. Aims The hypothesis underlying the study is that frailty complicates the management of older patients undergoing CR. The main objective is, therefore, to determine the relationship between frailty and CR outcomes in hospitalized older adults. Methods The participants have been recruited among patients aged ≥ 65 years admitted at the hospital for CR. A Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)-based Frailty Index (FI) was created following a standard procedure. The outcome was measured as the ratio between 6-min walk test (6MWT) distance at the end of CR and normal predicted values for a healthy adult of same age and gender, according to reference equations. Results The study population consisted of 559 elderly patients, 387 males (69.2%), with age of 72 (69–76) years. The most frequent diagnosis at admission was ischaemic heart disease (231, 41.5%) and overall 6MWT ratio was 0.62 ± 0.21. At the multivariable regression analysis, gender, diagnosis and FI were significantly and independently associated with 6MWT ratio (p ≤ 0.0001, p ≤ 0.001 and p ≤ 0.0001, respectively), while no significant association emerged for age. Conclusion FI resulted independently correlated to 6MWT ratio in a population of older patients undergoing in-hospital CR programs. Frailty is a multifactorial geriatric syndrome whose assessment is essential for prognostic evaluation of older patients, also in CR clinical setting..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

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Aging clinical and experimental research - 34(2022), 11 vom: 05. Sept., Seite 2675-2682

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Englisch

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Bencivenga, Leonardo [VerfasserIn]
Femminella, Grazia Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Ambrosino, Pasquale [VerfasserIn]
Bosco, Quirino [VerfasserIn]
De Lucia, Claudio [VerfasserIn]
Perrotta, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Formisano, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Komici, Klara [VerfasserIn]
Vitale, Dino Franco [VerfasserIn]
Ferrara, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Maniscalco, Mauro [VerfasserIn]
Cacciatore, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Papa, Antimo [VerfasserIn]
Rengo, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]

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6-min walk test
Cardiac rehabilitation
Comprehensive geriatric assessment
Frailty Index

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10.1007/s40520-022-02220-x

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OLC2132805792

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