NCT03420326

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

The Relationship Between Atrial Fibrillation and Frailty in Community-Dwelling

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 256 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

• Atrial Fibrillation
• Frail Elderly Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Frailty status assessment	The Edmonton frail scale and Frailty criteria by Dr. Fried would be used to assess participants frailty status

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-26
• Primary completion: 2018-06-01
• Completion: 2018-06-01
• First posted: 2018-02-05
• Last updated: 2019-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan