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The Relationship Between Atrial Fibrillation and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Elderly

NCT03420326 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 256

Last updated 2019-03-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmias in clinical practice. Research investigating hospitalized patients have indicated there are deleterious effects of AF on patients besides the disease burden itself, including longer stay days for hospitalization, higher rates of frailty and increasing mortality rate after discharged in six months. In the community-dwelling research also found that elderly with AF have lower cognitive function, physical functional tests score and slower walking speed compared with the health ones. However, there is limited articles investigating the impact of AF on community-dwelling elderly, and the relationship between AF and frailty is also lack of discussion. According to the aged society and increasing prevalence of AF, the relationship between AF and frailty in community-dwelling elderly is warranting investigated.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Frailty status assessment

The Edmonton frail scale and Frailty criteria by Dr. Fried would be used to assess participants frailty status

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Meng-Yueh Chien · College of medicine, National Taiwan University

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-26
Primary Completion
2018-06-01
Completion
2018-06-01

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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Diseases

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