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ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2025

Instruments to Measure Frailty in Patients with Heart Failure: a Narrative Review.

Cristiana Vitale, Ilaria Spoletini, Walter Gianni, Giuseppe Mc Rosano, Camilla Hage

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Review in Current heart failure reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Cristiana VitaleDepartment of Human Sciences and Promotion of Quality of Life San Raffaele Open, San Raffaele Open University of Rome, Rome, Italy. cristiana.vitale@gmail.com.
Ilaria SpoletiniIRCCS San Raffaele Roma, Rome, Italy.
Walter GianniDepartment of Internal Medicine and Geriatry, University Sapienza Rome, Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe Mc RosanoDepartment of Human Sciences and Promotion of Quality of Life San Raffaele Open, San Raffaele Open University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Camilla HageDepartment of Cardiology, Heart Failure Section, Department of Cardiology Medicine, Cardiology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Funding

Italian Ministry of Health Ricerca Corrente 20/1819
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewFrailty is a common multidimensional syndrome in patients with heart failure (HF); it is associated with worse outcomes, including poor quality of life, disability, hospitalizations, and increased mortality. This narrative review critically summarizes the most widely used instruments in clinical practice for frailty assessment in HF, compares their strengths and limitations, and discusses their role in predicting adverse outcomes. RECENT

findingsVarious tools have been developed to assess frailty in the HF patient population, aiming to guide clinical decisions and improve patient management. These scoring systems vary in their complexity and applicability and follow two main different approaches (the Fried phenotype and the frailty index). Recently, a new Heart Failure Frailty Score (HFFS) specifically designed to assess frailty in HF patients has been proposed. Frailty is a critical prognostic modifier in HF, making its systematic assessment in clinical practice essential for guiding therapeutic decision-making and optimizing clinical outcomes in this vulnerable population.

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FrailtyGeriatric AssessmentHeart FailureQuality of LifeHumansPrognosisDomainFrailtyHeart failureMultidimensional

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PMID41042319

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