The Association between Peripheral Blood Cells and the Frailty Syndrome in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty syndrome is characterized by multisystem dysregulation frequently found in older individuals or even in younger patients with chronic disabling diseases such as cardiovascular diseases.

Objective

To determine whether peripheral blood cell count, and its subpopulations, red blood cell and platelets, morphology and different ratios (neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and red blood distribution width-to-platelet ratio) are associated with cardiac frail patients, and through this to improve the prediction of frailty status in patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Methods

An observational, retrospective, cohort study enrolling 179 patients with cardiovascular disease divided into two groups: non-frail group (100 pts) and frail

SUBMITTER: Bodolea C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8226153 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature