March 11, 2026 · Washington, D.C.
Frailty predicts mortality but not quality of life recovery trajectories following cardiac catheterization
The work used registry data to look at frailty and quality of life trajectories after cardiac catheterization.
The two are entangled, not identical, but sharing and diverging in ways we don’t fully understand. Working out where they split and where they come together is how we will determine the pieces.