Irina Savelieva, Stefano Fumagalli, Rose Anne Kenny, Stefan Anker, Athanase Benetos, Giuseppe Boriani, Jared Bunch, Nikolaos Dagres, Sergio Dubner, Laurent Fauchier, Luigi Ferrucci, Carsten Israel, Hooman Kamel, Deirdre A Lane, Gregory Y H Lip, Niccolò Marchionni, Israel Obel, Ken Okumura, Brian Olshansky, Tatjana Potpara, Martin K Stiles, Juan Tamargo, Andrea Ungar, Jedrzej Kosiuk, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen, Borislav Dinov, Heidi Estner, Rodrigue Garcia, Francisco Manuel Moscoso Costa, Rachel Lampert, Yenn-Jiang Lin, Ashley Chin, Heliodoro Antonio Rodriguez, Timo Strandberg, Tomasz Grodzicki
There is an increasing proportion of the general population surviving to old age with significant chronic disease, multi-morbidity, and disability. The prevalence of pre-frail state and frailty syndrome increases exponentially with advancing age and is associated with greater morbidity, disability, hospitalization, institutionalization, mortality, and health care resource use. Frailty represents a global problem, making early identification, evaluation, and treatment to prevent the cascade of events leading from functional decline to disability and death, one of the challenges of geriatric and general medicine...
April 15, 2023: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology