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

Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Relationship Between Atrial Fibrillation and Frailty in Community-Dwelling

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03420326
• Other study ID #: 201711083RIND
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 26, 2018
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: January 2018
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 256
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 65 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Older than 65 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

diagnosed with the following disease

1. Cardiovascular diseases: myocardial infarction, peripheral vascular diseases, aortic plaque

2. Cerebrovascular disease: stroke, transient ischemic attack, emboli

3. Heart failure

4. Participants who cannot finish the trial

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Atrial Fibrillation
• Frail Elderly Syndrome
• Frailty

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Frailty status assessment
The Edmonton frail scale and Frailty criteria by Dr. Fried would be used to assess participants frailty status

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Ming-Ting Yang	Taipei	Zhongzheng District

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Frailty status	Edmonton frail scale and Frailty criteria by Dr. Fried would be used to evaluate the frail status of the participants	The frail status assessment would take about 10 minutes
Secondary	Body composition	Maltron BioScan BF-920, Essex, UK would be used to assess participants' body composition	The body composition test would take about 10 minutes