Association of Newly Diagnosed Hypertension and Polypharmacy with Frailty in a Tertiary Hospital Patients from Maracaibo City, Venezuela.

Background: As a syndrome of physiological vulnerability and multifactorial progressive decline tightly related to age, frailty has been associated with several illnesses, and in particular cardiovascular disease.

Objective: To assess the factors associated with the frailty syndrome in older adults evaluated in the outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital from Maracaibo city, Venezuela.

Materials And Methods: An observational, analytical, cross-sectional study was performed on subjects of both genders, over 60 years old that went to the Internal Medicine outpatient clinic of the Hospital General del Sur "Dr.