Impact of frailty status on clinical and functional outcomes after concomitant valve replacement and bipolar radiofrequency ablation in patients aged 65 years and older

Table 4 AFEQT scores at baseline and changes in follow-up for frail vs non-frail

Outcome	No	Unadjusted		Adjusted^a
Outcome	No	Estimate (95% CI)	P value	Estimate (95% CI)	P value
Overall AFEQT score at baseline^b	185	− 0.444 (− 0.574 to − 0.313)	< 0.001	− 0.400 (− 0.532 to − 0.267)	< 0.001
Change in AFEQT score at 1 y^c	174	0.127 (− 0.023 to 0.276)	0.096	0.071 (− 0.104 to 0.245)	0.424
Change in AFEQT score at 2 y^c	168	0.143 (− 0.008 to 0.295)	0.065	0.103 (− 0.073 to 0.279)	0.248

AFEQT, Atrial Fibrillation Effect on QualiTy-of-life
^aAdjusted for baseline covariates in overall AFEQT baseline model and change in AFEQT score models (at 1 year and 2 years): age, gender, normal BMI, LVEF, NYHA (IV), hypoalbuminemia, smoking history, diabetes, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, hypohepatia, COPD, Cancer, severe pulmonary hypertension, stroke/TIA, CAD, liver dysfunction, the number of valves requiring surgery, frailty
^bEstimate represents difference in overall AFEQT score at baseline
^cEstimate represents difference in mean change

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