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SUBMITTER: Alonso Salinas GL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6490378 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alonso Salinas Gonzalo Luis GL Sanmartin Marcelo M Pascual Izco Marina M Rincon Luis Miguel LM Pastor Pueyo Pablo P Marco Del Castillo Alvaro A Garcia Guerrero Alberto A Caravaca Perez Pedro P Recio-Mayoral Alejandro A Camino Asuncion A Jimenez-Mena Manuel M Zamorano José Luis JL
Clinical cardiology 20170716 10
<h4>Background</h4>Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients are increasingly older. Conventional prognostic scales include chronological age but do not consider vulnerability. In elderly patients, a frail phenotype represents a better reflection of biological age.<h4>Hypothesis</h4>This study aims to determine the prevalence of frailty and its influence on patients age ≥75 years with ACS.<h4>Methods</h4>Patients age ≥75 years admitted due to type 1 myocardial infarction were included in 2 tertiary ...[more]