Gait speed as an incremental predictor of mortality and major morbidity in elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery

The purpose of this study was to test the value of gait speed, a clinical marker for frailty, to improve the prediction of mortality and major morbidity in elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery. It is increasingly difficult to predict the elderly patient's risk posed by cardiac surgery be...

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Published in:	Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 56; no. 20; p. 1668
Main Authors:	Afilalo, Jonathan, Eisenberg, Mark J, Morin, Jean-François, Bergman, Howard, Monette, Johanne, Noiseux, Nicolas, Perrault, Louis P, Alexander, Karen P, Langlois, Yves, Dendukuri, Nandini, Chamoun, Patrick, Kasparian, Georges, Robichaud, Sophie, Gharacholou, S Michael, Boivin, Jean-François
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 09.11.2010
Subjects:	Aged Cardiac Surgical Procedures - methods Cardiac Surgical Procedures - mortality Confidence Intervals Exercise Test Female Follow-Up Studies Gait - physiology Heart Diseases - epidemiology Heart Diseases - surgery Humans Male Morbidity - trends Odds Ratio Prognosis Prospective Studies Quebec - epidemiology Survival Rate - trends United States - epidemiology United States Quebec
ISSN:	1558-3597, 1558-3597
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