Future Perspectives on the Role of Frailty in Cardiovascular Diseases

FrailtyFrailty is a clinical concept which is gaining increased momentum not only in geriatricsGeriatrics, but in all specialties treating adult patients. In these Future PerspectivesPerspective, the following roles of frailtyFrailty in the field of cardiovascular diseasesCardiovascular diseases (CVD) will be discussed as a narrative review: (1) Frailty as an adjunct to assess CVD patients in addition to traditional risk scores; (2) bidirectional relationship between frailty and CVD; (3) widening the scope of endpoints in CVD trials—inclusion of frailty; (4) finally, the relationship between geriatricsGeriatrics and cardiology will be shortly discussed.