
Frailty and Anticoagulant Therapy in Patients Aged 65 Years or Older with Atrial Fibrillation
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study involving 500 participants. Patients aged 65 years or older were consecutively selected from the Chinese Atrial Fibrillation Registry study. The patient’s frailty status was assessed with use of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale. We assessed the prevalence of and factors associated with frailty, and how frailty affects anticoagulant therapy.
Results: In 500 elderly adults with AF (age 75.2±6.7 years; 51.6% female), 201 patients (40.2%) were frail. The prevalence of frailty was higher in females (P=0.002) and increased with age and CHA2DS2-VASc score (P for trend less than 0.001 for both). The factors associated with frailty were a history of heart failure (odds ratio [OR] 2.40, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.39‐4.14), female sex (OR 2.09, 95% CI 1.27‐3.43), and advanced age (OR 1.13, 95% CI 1.09‐1.17). Frail patients were significantly less likely to have ever been prescribed anticoagulants compared with nonfrail patients (81.7 vs. 54.9%, P<0.001).
Conclusions: Frailty is prevalent in elderly adults with AF, especially in females, those of advanced age, and those with heart failure. Frailty status has a significant impact on prescription of anticoagulants for high-risk AF patients.
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Keywords: anticoagulant; atrial fibrillation; elderly adults; frailty
Document Type: Original Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University and National Clinical Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China 2: Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK
Publication date: January 1, 2020
This article was made available online on October 15, 2019 as a Fast Track article with title: "Frailty and Anticoagulant Therapy in Patients Aged 65 Years or Older with Atrial Fibrillation".
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