None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Patients with heart rhythm disorders potentially have an increased prevalence of frailty. Frailty influences treatment pathways such as pharmacotherapy in patients with AF for stroke risk and rate vs rhythm control. Patients who undergo ablation for AF who are also frail are more likely to have recurrence and are susceptible to events during hospitalisations. Patients who have cardiac device implantations are at increased risk of infection following surgery. As there are multiple aspects of heart rhythm disorder treatments that are influenced by frailty, we will determine the prevalence to help guide clinical screening requirements in this population.
Interventions
Exposure 1 - Physical Frailty (Fried et al. 2001 criteria)
• BMI (body mass & height)
• 4m casual gait speed
• Dominant hand grip strength
• Fried physical frailty subjective items
o Exhaustion
o Weight loss
• The international physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ)
Conducted by questionnaires taking up to 10 minutes and having gait speed and grip strength assessed with resting ECG at routine medical review appointments.
All participants will be assessed with both Exposure 1 & Exposure 2
Sponsors
The University of Adelaide
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
50 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patients with Atrial Fibrillation (AF), cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) and other heart rhythm disorders and aged greater than or equal to 50y
Exclusion criteria
• Inability to provide informed consent • Physical or neurological disability influencing gait or grip strength • Cognitive or neurological condition resulting in the inability to complete subjective questionnaires requiring recall of activities, experiences and conditions
Outcome results
None listed