Frailty in heart failure

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 266-273

  Uchmanowicz, Izabella ^a   Łoboz Rudnicka, Maria ^b   Szeląg, Przemysław ^b   Jankowska Polańska, Beata ^a   Łoboz Grudzień, Krystyna ^b  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b T Marciniak Lower Silesia Specialist Hospital Wroclaw   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cachexia; Comorbidities; Frailty; Heart failure; Prognosis; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

CACHEXIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE; FALLING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MOBILIZATION; MORTALITY; NURSING; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SARCOPENIA; SKELETON MALFORMATION; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; HEALTH; INCIDENCE; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROGNOSIS; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84906048294     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-014-0198-4     Document Type: Review

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