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Revista del Cuerpo Médico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
versión impresa ISSN 2225-5109versión On-line ISSN 2227-4731
Resumen
LEGUIA-CERNA, Juan Alberto; SERNA-ALARCON, Víctor y DIAZ-VELEZ, Cristian. Factors associated with fragility in older adults hospitalized in surgical services. Rev. Cuerpo Med. HNAAA [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.3, pp.404-411. Epub 30-Oct-2022. ISSN 2225-5109. http://dx.doi.org/10.35434/rcmhnaaa.2022.153.1317.
Objective:
To identify the factors associated with frailty in older adults hospitalized in surgical services of a Lambayeque hospital, March-June 2019.
Materials and Methods:
Analytical cross-sectional observational quantitative study. The elderly patients of the surgical services of the Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo National Hospital were evaluated during 2019. A collection sheet and validated scales were used to comprehensively assess the elderly; The sample consisted of 358 patients; the sampling was census type.
Results:
The mean age was 75 years (± 9 years). The most frequent gender was male 184 people (51.4%). Cardiological risk III was associated with frailty in the bivariate analysis, of the 46 complication cases, 30 were frail patients (2 out of 3). 105 frail patients (29%) and 137 pre-frail patients (38%) were found.
Conclusion:
The factors associated with frailty were: female gender, illiterate or primary level, low and high comorbidity, patients with probable dementia, with social risk, with malnutrition and with abnormal hemoglobin; the mean age was 75 years (± 9 years), with a mean intake of 3 drugs per day (± 2 drugs) and the most frequent comorbidity was arterial hypertension, followed by type 2 Diabetes Mellitus without target organ injury, and less frequent were peripheral arterial disease followed by mild liver disease.
Palabras clave : Aged; Frailty; Postoperative Complications; Comorbidity.