Reduced handgrip strength as a marker of frailty predicts clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure undergoing ventricular assist device placement

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 310-315

  Chung, Christine J ^a   Wu, Christina ^a   Jones, Meaghan ^a   Kato, Tomoko S ^a   Dam, Tien T ^a   Givens, Raymond C ^a   Templeton, Danielle L ^a   Maurer, Mathew S ^a   Naka, Yoshifumi ^a   Takayama, Hiroo ^a   Mancini, Donna M ^a   Schulze, P Christian ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

handgrip strength; Heart failure; skeletal muscle; ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRAILTY; GRIP STRENGTH; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL TIME; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; WEAKNESS; HAND STRENGTH; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899795414     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2014.02.008     Document Type: Article

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