Low life-space mobility is associated with increased risk of hospitalization and mortality, and tracks with deficits across multiple health domains and quality of life in adults with HFpEF.
Observational
Does low life-space mobility predict hospitalization and mortality in ambulatory adults with HFpEF?
The simplified life-space assessment tool can serve as a brief, inexpensive, and efficient way to identify vulnerable HFpEF patients at risk for adverse outcomes.
Bullet points: Low life-space mobility, assessed by the life-space assessment and the simplified life-space assessment, is associated awith adverse outcomes in ambulatory adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Low life-space mobility can serve as a summary score of multiple health domains, and a marker for impairments in quality of life. The simplified LSA could serve as a brief, inexpensive, and efficient way to identify vulnerable patients requiring a more detailed evaluation (and management) across multiple health domains.Lay Summary: Low life-space is linked with poor outcomes in adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).Low life-space tracks with deficits spanning multiple health domains and with quality of life.These findings were consistent whether life-space was assessed based on the complete or simplified assessment tool.As such, the simplified life-space assessment tool could serve as a brief, inexpensive, and efficient way to identify particularly vulnerable patients. Proposed Tweet:In HFpEF, low life-space mobility (measured by LSA & simplified LSA) signals: risk of hospitalization & mortality Deficits across multiple health domains + quality of life A quick, inexpensive way to identify vulnerable patients Simplified LSA = efficient tool for better patient care.
Marshall et al. (Sun,) conducted a observational in Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Life-space assessment (LSA and simplified LSA) was evaluated on Adverse outcomes (hospitalization and mortality). Low life-space mobility is associated with increased risk of hospitalization and mortality, and tracks with deficits across multiple health domains and quality of life in adults with HFpEF.