Frailty and cardiovascular diseases / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Frailty is a geriatric syndrome that has been implicated as a causative and prognostic factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD).Frailty and CVD are often concurrent and mutually promotive.The prevalence of frailty ranges from 10％ to 60％ in patients with CVD,depending on different tools and cutoffs chosen to define frailty.Short-and long-term prognosis of CVD are both affected by frailty.The presence of frailty is correlated with an increase in complications,outpatient and emergency department visits,hospital admissions and stays,and mortality in patients with CVD.Early prevention and clinical intervention can delay or even reverse the development of frailty,thus improving the prognosis for CVD.