Procedure-specific mortality risk in octogenarians undergoing curative GI cancer resection: A contemporary U.S. analysis. HFRS = Hospital Frailty Risk Score from ICD-10 coding. Estimates are ...

Patients with heart failure who had worse clinical frailty scores at discharge were also at higher risk of death within the next 2 years. Frailty is closely linked to adverse outcomes in older adults, ...

The laboratory-based Frailty Index showed strong predictive ability for mortality and relapse in patients with carbapenemase-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections. “Unlike traditional ...

The findings challenge the common belief that women are always at greater risk of poor outcomes and suggest that treatment approaches may need to be tailored more carefully for each sex. Researchers ...

Scientists from Autonomous University of Madrid and collaborating institutions have found that a healthy plant-based diet is associated with a lower risk of frailty in older adults. The research, ...

Background Lung cancer screening is effective for people at higher risk of the disease, but there is no international consensus on eligibility criteria. Some programmes use risk factors; others use ...

Pioneering research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the 'one-size-fits-all' approach to heart attack ...