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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Electronic frailty index helped predict risk for poor outcomes after chemotherapy in frail patients with breast, ...

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 ...

The proportion of patients with potentially inappropriate medications was 38% overall and 56.1% in patients with moderate to severe frailty. Use of potentially inappropriate medications among cancer ...

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