Heart rate variability can serve as a potential biomarker for frailty in older adults by reflecting changes in cardiac autonomic modulation.
Does heart rate variability monitoring serve as a biomarker for frailty in older adults?
Heart rate variability monitoring, including through wearable devices, may serve as a useful non-invasive biomarker for detecting and monitoring frailty in older adults.
Frailty is a state of critical loss of physiological complexity resulting in greater vulnerability to stressors and has been characterized as a debility syndrome in the older adult. Changes in functional capacity and the cardiovascular system during aging are the most significant and relevant for this population, including the clinically healthy. In this sense, this review aims to investigate methods to monitor the performance of older adults, such as heart rate variability and verify how it can be related to frailty. It contributes to understanding that the changes in heart variability can be a marker for frailty in older adults.
Arantes et al. (Fri,) conducted a review in Frailty. Heart rate variability monitoring was evaluated. Heart rate variability can serve as a potential biomarker for frailty in older adults by reflecting changes in cardiac autonomic modulation.
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