Patients with heart failure who had worse clinical frailty scores at discharge were also at higher risk of death within the next two years. Credit: Dr. Taisuke Nakade / Juntendo University Graduate ...
The incidence rate of heart failure was 2- to 3-fold higher among American Indian populations than rates observed in studies focused on other population groups, such as African American, Hispanic or ...
The second universal definition of heart failure moves away from specific EF cutoffs to classify patients into clinically actionable groups.
Dr. Nakade and team found that, at discharge, the majority of patients had CFS scores of 4 or higher, indicating that most patients with heart failure were of pre-frail status or worse. More ...