Frailty is often thought to be a syndrome of the elderly, which comes as a natural and inevitable side-effect of aging. A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Ottawa Institute examined the prevalence of frailty and its association with long-term mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery at a younger age. Researchers examined administrative healthcare data from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science (ICES) and the clinical registry data from Corhealth Ontario to support their findings. The adjusted long-term frailty-related mortality risk was inversely proportional to age, meaning after taking other comorbidities into consideration, frailty had a higher
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