Association between frailty and ischemic heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty is increasingly reported among older adults with cardiovascular diseases and it has been demonstrated to increase negative health outcomes and mortality. To date, no systematic review of the evidence is available regarding the association between frailty and ischemic heart disease (IHD). We performed a systematic review of literature and a meta-analysis to assess the association between frailty and IHD.

Methods

We selected all the studies that provided information on the association between frailty and IHD, regardless of the study setting, study design, or definition of IHD and frailty. PubMed, Web of Science and Embase were searched for relevant papers. Studies that adopted the Fried definition for frailty were included in the meta-analyses. For each meas

SUBMITTER: Liperoti R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8193864 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature