Moving the Field Forward: Untangling the Impact of Frailty on Patients With Advanced Heart Failure and on Prognosticating Outcomes

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Electronic address: Katherine.Clark@yale.edu.
² Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

Editorial

Katherine A A Clark et al. J Card Fail. 2022 May.

. 2022 May;28(5):775-777.

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.12.006. Epub 2021 Dec 20.

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Electronic address: Katherine.Clark@yale.edu.
² Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

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Frailty Measures of Patient-reported Activity and Fatigue May Predict 1-year Outcomes in Ambulatory Advanced Heart Failure: A Report From the REVIVAL Registry.
Lala A, Shah P, Khalatbari S, Yosef M, Mountis MM, Robinson SW, Lanfear DE, Estep JD, Jeffries N, Taddei-Peters WC, Stevenson LW, Richards B, Mann DL, Mancini DM, Stewart GC, Aaronson KD. Lala A, et al. J Card Fail. 2022 May;28(5):765-774. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.10.014. Epub 2021 Dec 25. J Card Fail. 2022. PMID: 34961663

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