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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 26.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Heart Fail. 2019 Dec;7(12):1001–1011. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2019.10.005

CENTRAL ILLUSTRATION. The Inter-Relationship Between Frailty and Heart Failure.

CENTRAL ILLUSTRATION

Frailty and heart failure share common pathological mechanisms, often coexist and associated with worse clinical and patient-oriented outcomes. Screening for frailty using simple, easy to use tests followed by detailed assessments is important to identify and target frail HF patients with multi domain interventions to improve outcomes.