Screening for sarcopenia and frailty in patients with chronic ulcers: a cross-sectional study.

Tamiris GomesKelly Cristina Blaszkowski TrombiniMarcos Vinicíus Soares MartinsHilana Rickli Fiuza Martins

Published in: Jornal vascular brasileiro (2020)

Patients with chronic venous ulcers exhibit frailty or pre-frailty and the components that comprise the condition of frailty in this population are exhaustion, low physical activity, and muscle weakness. Sarcopenia was identified in a small proportion of the patients.

Keyphrases

community dwelling
physical activity
skeletal muscle
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
risk factors