Assessing frailty in heart failure

Affiliations

¹ Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiology, Athens University Hospital Attikon, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece.
² University of Cyprus Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
³ Laboratory of Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Study of Motion, Department of Physiotherapy, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.

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Dimitrios Farmakis et al. Eur J Heart Fail. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;22(11):2134-2137.

doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1905. Epub 2020 Jun 26.

¹ Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiology, Athens University Hospital Attikon, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece.
² University of Cyprus Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
³ Laboratory of Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Study of Motion, Department of Physiotherapy, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.

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The prevalence and importance of frailty in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction - an analysis of PARADIGM-HF and ATMOSPHERE.
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