Juan Thomaz Gabriel de Souza Ramos, Felipe Sanches Ferrari, Morganna Freitas Andrade, Caroline Souto de Melo, Paulo José Fortes Villas Boas, Nara Aline Costa, Amanda Gomes Pereira, Mariana Souza Dorna, Paula Schmidt Azevedo, Jay Banerjee, Bethan E Phillips, Philip J Atherton, Bertha Furlan Polegato, Katashi Okoshi, Silmeia Garcia Zanati, Sergio Alberto Rupp Paiva, Leonardo Antonio Mamede Zornoff, Marcos Ferreira Minicucci
The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between frailty, evaluated by the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) and FRAIL scale, and C-terminal agrin fragment (CAF) levels with 3-month mortality following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This was a prospective observational study that included patients over the age of 18 years with STEMI admitted to the coronary intensive care unit. Within 48 h of admission, the CFS and FRAIL scale were applied and blood samples collected for serum CAF evaluation...
December 14, 2021: Experimental Gerontology