Findings from Department of Cardiology in the Area of Heart Failure Described (Clinical Characteristics and Social Frailty of Super-Elderly Patients…

Findings from Department of Cardiology in the Area of Heart Failure Described (Clinical Characteristics and Social Frailty of Super-Elderly Patients With Heart Failure. - The Kitakawachi Clinical Background and Outcome of Heart Failure Registry)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Cardiovascular Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Heart Disorders and Diseases - Heart Failure. According to news originating from Osaka, Japan, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Social background is important in preventing admission/readmission of heart failure (HF) patients. However, few clinical studies have been conducted to assess the social background of these patients, especially elderly patients."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Cardiology, "The Kitakawachi Clinical Background and Outcome of Heart Failure (KICKOFF) Registry is a prospective multicenter community-based cohort of HF patients, established in April 2015. We compared the clinical characteristics and social background of the super-elderly group (>= 85 years old) and the non-super-elderly group (<85 years old). This study included 647 patients; 11.8% of the super-elderly patients were living alone, 15.6% were living with only a partner, and of these, only 66.7% had the support of other family members. The super-elderly group had less control over their diet and drug therapies than the non-superelderly group. Most patients in the super-elderly group were registered for long-term care insurance (77.4%); 73.5% of the superelderly patients could walk independently before admission, but only 55.5% could walk independently at discharge, whereas 94% of the non-super-elderly patients could walk independently before admission and 89.4% could walk independently at discharge. The KICKOFF Registry provides unique detailed social background information of Japanese patients with HF."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Superelderly patients are at serious risk of social frailty; they need the support of other people and their ability to perform activities of daily living decline when hospitalized."

For more information on this research see: Clinical Characteristics and Social Frailty of Super-Elderly Patients With Heart Failure. - The Kitakawachi Clinical Background and Outcome of Heart Failure Registry. Circulation Journal, 2017;81(1):69-76. Circulation Journal can be contacted at: Japanese Circulation Soc, 18TH Floor Imperial Hotel Tower, 1-1-1 Uchisaiwai-Cho Chiyoda-Ku, Toyko, 100-0011, Japan (see also Heart Disorders and Diseases - Heart Failure).

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from S. Kitaguchi, Hirakata Kohsai Hosp, Dept. of Cardiol, Hirakata, Osaka 5730153, Japan. Additional authors for this research include A. Ikuta, Y. Okazaki, M. Ogami, K. Iwatsu, K. Matsumura, T. Ikeda, T. Ichinohe, Y. Morikami, T. Yamamoto, R. Fujita, K. Takenaka, H. Takenaka, Y. Haruna, H. Muranaka, M. Ozaki, T. Kitamura, S. Kitaguchi and R. Nohara.

Keywords for this news article include: Osaka, Japan, Asia, Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions, Heart Disorders and Diseases, Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Cardiology, Department of Cardiology.

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