Fragilidade e Prognóstico: relação com tipos de insuficiência cardíaca de acordo com fração de ejeção

Abstract

Frailty and Prognosis: relationship with types of Heart Failure according to ejection fraction is a prospective cohort study in which they were observed for a period of one year, with a first stage of observation of six months of patients of the Heart Failure outpatient clinic of the Marcílio Dias Naval Hospital aged 65 years or older, with the different types of Heart Failure by the ejection fraction, after the achievement of the frailty criteria by Fried modified for the study. . The primary endpoint sat the outcomes death and ospitalization and the relationship with frailty. The secondary objective was to relate patients who fit the phenotype of frailty with the different classes of Heart Failure. More frequent comorbidities found in these patients were also associated, which could contribute to the different outcomes. The results show a significant presence of patients with frailty phenotype in the sample, with the presence of 88.8% of the patients. Death occurred in 27.8% of patients, all with some degree of frailty. The study demonstrated that the incidence of Frailty in patients with heart failure has a high prevalence, being the worst outcome related to the presence of this phenotype in one year.