Publications by authors named "Jessica Chetrit"
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- Frailty is common in older adults with heart failure and can lead to worse health outcomes, but there’s no consensus on how to effectively measure it in clinical settings.
- A study involving 215 heart failure patients compared the predictive value of three physical frailty scales regarding hospitalization and quality of life over three months.
- Results showed that all three frailty scales were linked to increased risks of death, hospitalization, and declines in health-related quality of life, making them useful tools for assessing prognosis in these patients.
Background: Frailty assessment is recommended to evaluate the candidacy of adults referred for orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT). Psoas muscle area (PMA) is an easily measured biomarker for frailty. There has yet to be a study examining the prognostic impact of PMA in OHT patients.
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